#quilt borders

[emmbrr]

happy beltane & may day! 🌿

[bluedesignwall]

Yah,hooray,fantastic, ka mau te wehi! The borders are finished. I’m dancing around the living room with aching shoulders and sore fingers. I’m very happy all the tiny appliqué stitches are done. Yah! Next I will have to remove all the wee paper hexies from the back of the quilt. Still have not decided on quilting but leaning towards hand quilting it myself to keep the hand stitched project totally hand stitched. Hmmm.

[bluedesignwall]

I have finished one end. Yah. You can see the difference between the stitched and not stitched chains. One end to go. Sore fingers, time to take a break.

[bluedesignwall]

I finally got the corner sections of my quilt glued in place and ready to hand stitch.  I will think about how I quilt the quilt while I stitch the final parts of the border in place. I was thinking hand quilting because the whole quilt has been done by hand so far.  Hmmm I will think on it.

[quiltails]

The second step in adding a border to my formerly-completed Picatso #2 is to "extend" the batting. First I squared up the quilt again (since the edges frayed just a little while I was removing the binding), and then I cut four strips about six inches wide from my batting scraps (this is the same wool felt I use in all my art quilts as it gives great body and can stand up to heavy quilting). I butted the strips alongside my now raw quilt edge and zigzaged them together on my machine. Tomorrow I'll start making the border for my newly enlarged quilt. Bobbin is very confused about what I'm doing to his quilt.

[quiltails]

It's never a good idea to sew or cut when you're tired or have bad light (or both, in this case). After mitering my secondary border on my Hoffman Challenge quilt by hand (which is easier for me than machine and usually gives me better results), I trimmed my seam allowance -- and cut right through my border! Yes, I feel like an idiot. Luckily, it's perfectly placed to be covered by an appliqué. I'm going to put this away now and go sew some more hexies.

[theinboxjaunt]

Tutorial Tuesday--The Egg-and-Dart Border

Today we are going to steal a page out of Greek Architecture.  The egg-and-dartdesign motif is…

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