Less Sashay, More Sashing, Much Sizing
Wide borders and large sashing are easy ways to eat up fabric and make a larger quilt out of just a few blocks. Sashing can also help even out slightly different block sizes, such as was the case with my Altar Step blocks.
I like how this is turning out much more than I expected to.

More importantly than how the project is turning out, I want to take a minute to provide sponsor-free praise of Mary Ellen’s Best Press. I avoided buying it for many years, thinking cheaper box-store spray starch or sizing was perfectly fine. Curiosity got the best of me recently, and I’m convinced I’ll never buy anything else again.
Piecing these slightly wonky, flimsy fabric-made blocks has been amazingly painless after using Best Press. It really does make an incredible amount of difference. I don’t want to say it will magically solve all problems—such as the poor technique of a beginning quilter—but let’s just say it’s well on its way to being a scientific theory from this data set of one.
2 Responses to “Less Sashay, More Sashing, Much Sizing”
Nikki
4:19 pm | 08/06/15
Good to know: I’ve wondered about Best Press for awhile myself. I’ll have to run the experiment as well, and perhaps be able to add to the dataset you’ve started.
I’m all about the data…
Lynette@seawaytrail
10:09 am | 08/13/15
From a distance the result has a very early 1800’s feel!