Guides

One question per guide, answered at the top, with the arithmetic shown. Written by the people who build Sashing, using the same rules the app uses: ¼″ seams, 40″ of usable fabric width, yardage rounded up to the next ⅛ yard.

• How to add sashing to a quilt

  How wide to make it, how many strips and cornerstones to cut, and the order to sew them in.

• How much fabric for a throw quilt

  A 62 × 76″ Ohio Star throw worked through fabric by fabric: top, border, binding and backing.

• How to calculate fabric for quilt borders

  Total length, strips across the fabric, and yardage, for one border or several.

• Half-square triangle cut size: the ⅞″ rule

  Why HSTs are cut ⅞″ larger, a cut-size chart, and the 1¼″ rule for quarter-square triangles.

• Flying geese cut size, three ways

  Stitch and flip, four at a time and the oversized variant, with a chart from 1 × 2″ to 6 × 12″.

• Quilt sizes chart, crib to king

  Common quilt sizes side by side, why charts disagree, and how a target size becomes whole blocks.

• How to read a quilt cutting chart

  What WOF, subcut and “cut twice on the diagonal” mean, with a real chart read line by line.

• How to audition fabrics for a quilt

  Value before colour, the right scale, one block before the whole quilt, and checking the yardage.

• How to plan a quilt from your stash

  Measure what you have, give the big pieces the big jobs, and buy only what is missing.

• How much fabric for quilt backing

  The 4″ overhang, how many lengths to seam, and which way the seams should run.

• How to calculate quilt binding

  Perimeter plus 12″, strips across the fabric, and yardage, with every common size worked out.