Borders

Borders Make Such A Difference

November 17, 2011

When the Halloween quilt was shown on the blog a while back, someone commented that they were surprised how much it looked like the Electric Quilt drawing.  That’s part of the beauty of Electric Quilt – we can know exactly what the quilt is going to look like before we even start sewing. Last night [...]

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Brown Border Corners

March 3, 2011

This is the quilt design I posted yesterday, with a few tweaks to the colors: One reader commented that she wasn’t about the corners and I wrote her back that sometimes (though rarely), I like to break the rules.  When I first put this border on here, I wasn’t sure I liked it either but [...]

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Border Bundles

July 22, 2010

Before I cut the first piece of fabric, I create a border chart: The numbers in parentheses indicate the halfway point so I don’t have to figure it out when I’m at the cutting table. Once the strips are sewn together to give me the length I need and using the long cutting mat, I [...]

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Am I Backwards?

September 30, 2009

Who ever said you have to make your blocks first, then you borders?  Can you make you borders first?  Then make your blocks?  Yes, you can and I mostly do.  Since most of my quilts seem to have 7 or 8 borders, I often make the borders first.  I’ll lay the outermost top and bottom [...]

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Borders – Odd & Even

August 18, 2009

If you’ve tried to plan a pieced border, you may have come across a border design that has to have either an even number of blocks or an odd number of blocks in order to work correctly.  This is an example of a border that has to have an odd number of blocks in order [...]

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Number of Borders

July 14, 2009

How many borders are right?  It’s up to you!  Don’t you love it?  It’s your quilt and as long as you’re happy with it, you can have 1 border or 100 borders — whatever you want!  Let the quilt be your guide.  If you look at your  quilt and find that it looks like the [...]

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