Garden Maze Quilt Sashing

I ve used both of these a bit lately and want something else.

Garden maze quilt sashing. I love using differnt sashing ideas but i seem to have gotten stuck for new ideas. Tangled garter tirzah s maze and sun dial. In each of these variations the strips in the sashing units are solid and not pieced as in our directions. Move blocks around until you are happy with the layout.

The first step was to cut the red strips. But that cross over in the corner stone is a little fiddly to get just right both for sizing and for placement. It s because of the diagonal in the garden maze units. I put together a quick drawing in eq7 of the garden maze quilt pattern.

As the old saying goes necessity is the mother of creativity well this mother has learned that creativity is a necessity to retain my sanity. Have you ever made a garden maze quilt. This e pattern was originally published in quick easy quilts. Identifying the blocks and the setting i would use in electric qu.

Of course i ve done the classic corner square. I studied the small 6 block and saw it in a new light. Since these were 8 blocks i used a finished cut 1 strip. Simple blocks plus pieced sashing rows will create this intricate looking and lovely quilt.

Once we had the blocks arranged in the desired order it was on to the sashing. Last week i shared a photo of an antique quilt along with how i broke the quilt down i e. 3 x 3 6 x 6. Yes those brown strips are different from the garden maze units.

My favorite is the garden maze sashing because it brings the whole quilt together and i also enjoy using attic windows as sashing between blocks. I ve always loved their airy suggestion of lattice. The traditional way of making them uses a cross over in the corner stone and simple rails in the sashing. What follows is my quick piecing technique which i hope will keep you from being dazed by the garden maze.

For each cut two 1 1 2 x 12 1 2 strips brown and one 5 3 4 x 12 1 2 strip pink print. Though garden maze looks complicated it is really a pieced sashing which is not difficult to do. Sew the blocks in each row together separating them with 1 1 2 x 6 1 2 vertical sashing strips. If your quilt is scrappy arrange the blocks on a design wall or other flat surface placing them in five rows each containing five blocks.

And i found it.