Mystery
Quilt 3
|
Part One - Choosing the Fabric is Here Part Two- Cutting
Part Three - Sewing the Squares Part Three-B - Assembling the Units
Part 4 - Assemble the Top This is Part 5 - Border Talk
Border Talk: You can, of course, use any border you want for your pieced top. But, if you love to use up your leftovers and want a jazzy look that will harmonize with the quilt top, think about doing a scrappy pieced border. I'll show you two different approaches, you may come up with another - if you do and want to share it, email me.
The
Pieces You Have Left:
You may have cut your blocks from fat quarters or from
standard quarters. I showed diagrams of these in Part
2 Cutting Instructions.
From
a Fat Quarter
(made by cutting a standard 1/2 yard cut
in half vertically). If you used Fat Quarters you'll have had the "save
piece" left from each which will be approximately 4" x 18". If
you made the smaller size quilt, you'll still have the same size pieces left
over.
From
a Standard Quarter
(as cut across a piece of fabric
from selvedge to selvedge). If you used standard quarters you'll have had the
end "save this piece" of about 6' x 9" left over.
Pull out all your Quilt Top & the Scraps
Get all your left over pieces out and spread out the quilt top. Lay a variety
of the scraps along the edge of the quilt top. Do they need a little zip or do
they need an accent color added for the border? Look in your fabric stash. A
black or very dark fabric might be good? Or a light and bright addition? Pull
out some possible fabrics and lay them along with the others. Picking a couple
oddball fabrics to add can make the border more fun. Or, perhaps you want to
remove some scraps and make the border less showy?
If you decide to add some fabrics, cut a strip of the added fabrics across the width of the fabric (4" wide if you have fat quarter scraps or 6" wide if you have standard quarter scraps.) Or if your additional fabrics are scraps themselves you can trim them later.
Remember you may also want to add a narrow, solid color border between the quilt top and the outer, wider scrap border.
Sewing Strips and Making the Border
If you make the Mystery Quilt #3 I'd love to have a photo for the Gallery - email to 'quilting -at- equilters.com'
Susan
Susan Druding
Fat Quarter Mystery Quilt designed by Susan C. Druding copyright © 2000 - pattern is for personal use only. It is not to be reprinted for distribution in any manner, neither on paper nor electronically by email or on other Web sites. I'm happy to have it used by Quilt Guilds - please ask me for requirements for use in guild projects.
Sign
up for free
Quilters' Nuggets Newsletter
It's a short
emailed newsletter to let you know when new articles and links are added.