Salvaged by the Sashing

Unfinished, a photo by Jane-Ace on Flickr.

one of my favorite tutorial sources has been the videos posted by Jenny Doan of the Missouri Star Quilt Company. (Quack.) ;o)

   The blocks pictured here were thrown together using five strips of 1.5 inch widths along the lines of her posted tutorial for the "Three Dudes'" block. I was not especially careful with my quarter inch in stitching these, and ended up (somehow) with three sets of three different sizes. So, I had nine blocks, but each set of three was incrementally larger than the last. If I cut them to size, I would lose some of the corner color. I finally decided to "fix" it by cutting sashing in the odd sizes needed to end up with a square. I would be more specific, but honestly, I don't know how I did it. 

I tend to like downsizing patterns, but this one would be more effective had I stuck with the 2.5 inch strips suggested in the tutorial. I nearly lost the effect of the framed mid-section due to the smaller size strips I used. Also... this won't work unless each strip is equal width as the other strips.


[See Nov. 12 "Scrappy Quilt" post for photo of completed quilt.]