It has been awhile since I shared some quilting ideas with you all. I decided I haven’t shared my favorite sashing designs for those small sashing or border spaces:
I first started using these about 5 years ago when I started quilting. Obviously, I didn’t invent the swirl, but the swirl just kept evolving into different variations over the years.
Let me show you some of these I used on a quilt:
Basic swirl:
Note: I also like my flower design too. The added detail in the center really adds to the flower design, don’t you think?
I this next one, I’ve used a swirl & single feather combo in 2 sizes:
The oak leaf one is here in the lowest white border- sans swirl:
In the Egyptian Quilt, I embellished on the whole swirl combo for a cool look by adding berries and a extra leaf:
You have to look close in the black sashing section.
It is my hope that this post helps other quilters. Experiment and come up with your own designs to share with others, too. Share the love, so to speak.
If you enjoy this post, please leave me a comment. I would love to hear from you! I also have a sizable FREE Tutorial Page filled with lots of creative stuff. Just follow the link in the sentence above.
Regards, Carla
Cool! Great post!
Thank you *so* much for the diagram and photo examples. Thinking of what to put where is always a challenge for me because I’m just not terribly imaginative. I love seeing samples of what others have done to see what *can* be done.
great stuff, Carla! What kind of machine/setup do you quilt on? I am really frustrated with my frame ( and feel somewhat out of control on it…) so I’m ready to go back to just quilting on a table.
I really appreciate your showing these!
Love all the variations of the swirl! Now I am drawing on a scrap of paper and like adding an echo to the berry swirl. And tucking a berry and a feather inside the swirl.
Now I have another scrap of paper to stick in a scrap book!
Judy B
Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us… I always stop by and I’m always inspired by your work. Thanks for the tips, techniques and tutorials!
If you want, I can draw the how to for the one used on the Egyptian quilt. Just let me know if this is something you all want to see..
Thanks Carla for sharing these great motifs. I always have so much trouble coming up with just the right pattern. These will provide some much needed inspiration…Kathy
I’ve always loved your swirl combos. Thanks for the drawings showing the different ones. So, when will you be back at your machine? I hope you’re feeling better.
I have done some swirls in borders. But the place I seem to use them the most is on my handbag straps.
Of course, yours look so much more refined!
Do you premark them at all??? Or do you just carefully eye the size and spacing, and do them freehand??? Inquiring minds want to know…
Hi Beena, I freehand all my sashing quilt design shown… once you learn them, they are very easy to do. No premarking is needed. Try it and see if I am right…
Carla
Beautiful quilting. I love to experiment with quilting and trying new designs in free motion.
Debbie
I don’t remember ever seeing that 1st quilt on a post — it’s so simple yet so beautiful with the quilting. My favorite is the oak leaf — although they are all great. Can’t wait to see what you’re working on next. Makes me want to get into my quilting room — which I haven’t done in weeks.
The first quilt was for my elderly friend, Nancy. It is several years old, I think it was the first quilt I ever quilted for her. Btw, it won a blue ribbon at her guild fair. Now, how are YOU feeling?
Thanks for sharing the wonderful sash ideas, its great to have a good resource of tried and true quilting motifs. The fact that they are quick and pretty simple is a bonus. I enjoy all your posts and wonderful pictures of your quilt. Thanks so much.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge (and your talent!) with us. I would love to see the “how-to” for the Egyptian quilt sashing. It’s not always easy for me to understand how things are stitched until it’s spelled out for me.
Hi Sherri, keep watching! Btw, it is good to hear from you all. Sometimes I wonder who bothers to read it. LOL Take care an thanks, C
I LOVE it and everything else.
Thanks so much for the great tutorial, Carla! I enjoy reading your blog.
Your work is so precise. Thanks for sharing your ideas and I also enjoy reading your bold even if it’s about washing windows, although I loved following your trip with the boat. I hope your injuries from your Troy fall are getting better. Quite an old city with nasty walks, but it does have it’s charm somewhere in there. I use to take walks around there and some of the old brownstones are so charming with all their stone work. Joanne
Hi Joanne! I was healing really good… until my burning desire to wash my windows. LOL That set me back a bit but each day I am feeling a little better. Thank you for asking. Today, I will even quilt a little. Btw, I loved old town Troy and fell in love with the independant bookstore. There is also a store next door where I found some yarn, too. C
Thanks so much for the longarm quilting tutorials – they are sooo helpful!!!
thank you for sharing these! i appreciate it. so many quilters these days don’t ‘share’ for fear of someone caitializing on their ideas. i love looking at your quilts, your creative quilting ideas are amazing. keep stitchn’
When I first read the title and before the photos came up, I thought “You want ME to give YOU some sashing ideas?” LOL. This is great stuff. Thank you, Carla.
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Thanks so much for posting these, and especially thanks for showing them in your quilts; it is so helpful and I can’t wait to try them out. I quilt on my dsm but many of the designs you show can be done on the dsm, it just takes a little more practice
) Just wanted you to know I’ve learned so much from studying your works!
Thanks for sharing with us – you are the best!
I used your basic swirls for a border this past weekend and they don’t look too bad. thanks so much for the wonderful instructions.
Beautiful, Carla! Thanks so much for sharing!
Carla, thanks for re-posting these. I’ve been ppp the split leaf as well as the oak leaf swirl this past week. I hope to use them on a real quilt soon!
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Carla – your quilting is breathtaking! I stand in awe. If you don’t mind sharing, what is your preferred batting? i’m still searching for one that gives really good definition. Thanks for sharing so generously!
Thankyou for sharing and showing your sashing quilting designs
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As always Carla – I love your quilting…. and the ‘how to’s’
I can’t tell you how much you have helped me. I seriously think you have changed my (quilting) life forever!!!!! I have always had such a difficult time with sashing. . . but these squiggly thingies are so perfect!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
The are easy, versatile, fast, foolproof. . . omg!!!!!