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No, It’s NOT Actually Sashing Stash!

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

No! No! It’s NOT actually Sashing Stash! This delicious jacket was made the old fashioned way by the redoubtable Gweneth McMillard, who obvious leans toward classic Equilateral Triangles jacket trims. Spotted on the streets of Albany, California, 2016.

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Sashing Stash Accent Trim

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

Jennifer Goheen brightened up her mother’s classic white curtains with Flying Geese Sashing Stash banding. “It gives them a Greek look,” she says. See her article about how she did it.

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Scrap Doodles Collaboration

Posted on September 3, 2016 by duganek.

In a workshop using Sashing Stash scraps for inspiration, three participants ended up collaborating on a post workshop project. The three beginning blocks (above) were made by Sue Peck, Shawn Dubin, and Sue Fox of Berkeley. Shawn reports, “After some …

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Salad

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

Salad is another delightful baby quilt by Dani Lawler, starring a lush harvest from the garden with Sashing Stash giving a charismatic supporting performance—in the role of sashing!

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Cat and Fish

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

While most preemies wear protective eye cover to protect their eyes from bright ceiling lights, their parents and nurses often value a distinctive quilt that helps then identify and bond with the fragile infant. Here, Dani Lawler uses scraps of …

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Ten Blocks from the Workshop

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

When Ann and Eleanor had finished making the first batch of Sashing Stash sample quilts, California designer Sue Fox begged for the leftover scraps and invited friends over to play at her Berkeley workshop. Above are the first ten blocks …

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Fox and Geese

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

“The inspiration to make this quilt came when several piles of red & white and black & white fabrics, in scraps and fat quarters, were sitting together on my work table. Many of these fabrics were designed by friends and/or …

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Secret Garden

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

“This was the second design I chose (after Geese Take Flight) when I decided to make 2 Sashing Stash quilts to take to a local quilt show. I loved the colors in the sketch of this quilt by graphic artist …

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Geese Take Flight

Posted on September 3, 2016. Updated September 3, 2016 by duganek.

“I made this from the free Riley Blake pattern but without removing the outside seam allowance, thus creating a double stripe on each side of the geese. The red is a mottled fabric I just happened to have in my …

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Plain Curtains Take Off with Flying Geese

Posted on February 14, 2016. Updated February 14, 2016 by duganek.

By Jennifer Goheen My mother was never thrilled with the plain white curtains she’d gotten for her wide living room windows. There just weren’t a lot of available commercial options for the size she needed. She’s had the curtains for …

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Your Fashion Stash

Posted on November 27, 2015. Updated February 14, 2016 by duganek.

Try using a Sashing Stash motif strip as an elegant banding on a dress, jacket, skirt, belt, etc. Here, a strip of blue Squares on Point trims a little girl’s sundress.

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Sashing Stash Reversed

Posted on October 26, 2015. Updated November 8, 2015 by duganek.

When you look at a length of Sashing Stash fabric, you probably see a colored design on a white background. But two of the five designs lend themselves to being used in the opposite way. Instead of a red or …

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“Any Color as Long as It’s Black”

Posted on June 1, 2015. Updated August 22, 2015 by duganek.

Henry Ford offered his customers his Model T Ford in “any color, as long as it’s black.” Sashing Stash currently comes in three colors, but quilters write to ask “Why don’t you offer Sashing Stash in…?” and they name their …

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Quilt Blocks Become Home Dec

Posted on May 13, 2015. Updated February 14, 2016 by duganek.

Quilt designer Sue Fox of Berkeley, CA has been a longtime booster of Sashing Stash, so when I had finished my sample quilts for Riley Blake Designs, I gave her my scraps to play with, and she came up with …

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Riley Blake
Spring Quilt Market Blog Tour

Posted on May 1, 2015. Updated November 20, 2015 by duganek.

Hi, I’m Eleanor Dugan. Allow me to introduce you to Sashing Stash, designed by me and drafted into reality by gifted graphic artist Ann Marra. I invite you to view my short video explaining what Sashing Stash is and what a …

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Introducing Sashing Stash

Posted on March 1, 2015. Updated October 26, 2015 by duganek.

Sashing Stash is a unique new fabric for quilters, designed to provide quick sashing and borders, as well as replacing weeks of piecing on traditional designs. The collection includes 12 fabrics, designed by Eleanor Dugan and produced by Riley Blake …

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