QUILTsocial Issue 14

Step 6 - Trim the sashing
Before you trim the sashing, carefully
remove the stitch n tear stabilizer. It’s not
necessary that all the bits be removed
from the lettering. Get the bulk of it out.
The rest will disintegrate when the quilt
is washed.
Place the ¾” line of the ruler along the
chalk line. Cut the excess away.
Turn the piece around and cut a 1½” strips
with the lettering centered in the middle.
Place the 3⁄4'' line of the ruler on the chalk line to
center the wording on the sashing
The sashing has been trimmed to 1½” x 6½”
Then centering the word lengthwise,
trim the strip so that it measures 6½”.
I’m in the process of finishing the rest of
the lettering in the sashing and until I
can lay out all the blocks on the design
wall, I won’t be able to start stitching
the sashing to the blocks. It didn’t take
long to stitch out the entire width of
fabric (about 21 words per width), but
it does take some time to trim them up
since you want the words to be centered
within the sashing.
I’ve done this with another quilt that had
a large number of blocks in it.
On the upper right you can see the name
of the block (Tic-Tac-Toe) is stitched in the
sashing which corresponds to the block
that it’s sewn to.
The block name is stitched into the sashing.
This is a really fun way to dress up your
quilt. I like to include elements that
will draw the audience in to have a
closer look. Once they realize that the
block names are in the quilt, they begin
searching to know the names of certain
blocks.
Using the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC
to perform this task was easy and fast.
And that’s important when you have 111
block names to stitch out.
6 steps:
adding
lettering to
quilt sashings
using
machine
embroidery
Step 1 - Set up the Designer EPIC for
machine embroidery
It’s very easy to slide off the extension
table and add the embroidery unit to
the Designer EPIC.
Be sure that there is plenty of room on
all sides of the embroidery unit. It’s big
and you don’t want anything to obstruct
the path of the embroidery arm when it
starts to stitch out the embroidery.
I need to choose the appropriate hoop
size. My sashings will be 6” finished so I
don’t need to use a wide hoop. I have
three to choose from and ended up using
the 150 x 240. Those numbers represent
the hoop size in millimeters (mm).
42 QUILTsocial | issue 14
Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC with the
embroidery unit