Leslie,

Thanks for your input! Unfortunately, since this is an ancient UFO, I don't seem to have any of the fabrics left from the front to act as "corner stones" to help mask the fact that I don't have the yardage to cut long strips.. That said, you did give me the idea to see if I have enough yardage to cut cornerstone type blocks from the background fabric rather than simply piecing long strips as I would a border or binding. Hmmmm...where is my graph paper and calculator.

- dlm.

On Monday, July 28, 2014 6:08:06 PM UTC-4, Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. wrote:
When I have to piece a saching or border, I either stick in a block from the quilt (a miniature sized- scaled down- block if necessary) or a piece of another fabric in the quilt or the signature/dedication/'name of the quilt' block where the seam will be. Sometimes, I put the 'extra' blocks in the center of each side or stagger them or even scatter several filler blocks thru out the saching or border to make it longer and/or where the seam would be. Or you can make the diagonal seam as you described and piece in diagonal piece of a different fabric from the quilt where the seam will be.



No one has to know The Why of it. It's merely what you wanted to do- A Design Element- rather than an 'oopsie, the fabric wasn't long enough'. ;-)



Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.





On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:33:39 PM UTC-5, - dlm. wrote:

Will the Quilt Police issue a citation if I'm forced to piece all of my long sashing strips? Is this going to be an egregious error on my part? If not, will I just piece the strips on the diagonal, much like I would do with binding? For aesthetics purposes, should I make each row of long sashing be pieced in about the same place or should it change from row to row?







-dlm. 'trying to finish UFOs as well as make use of my ancient stash'