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The latest squirrel project made of scrappy 3.5" squares had made it to about 35" square, but that isn't really big enough to be a useful quilt, to me..
In my yardage bins I found a number of strips that were border cuttoffs from the Go Four It quilt top I put together last year.
I wasn't too happy with the joins for these borders, but overall the quilt is so large and busy, I wasn't too fussed about it. For this smaller, quilt, however, I took more care with the joining.
One of these strips has a pattern-matched seam. It only took three tries to get it perfect :)
Originally I thought I would do a narrow border, but this brown print looked better cut wider, 3.5", same as the block size.
I haven't decided how many little stars/churn dash blocks I will make, perhaps not the whole length of the top. I may end up with partial borders or cornerstones in this cheddar fabric. Not very much of this is left either, but using up stash is certainly a necessity, as storage is at MAX !
4 comments:
I think your quilt from leftovers is going to be prettier than the original, which is also very nice. The cheddar border and stars on the corner really add a lot.
ooo - i really like the little squares as a border
You've made good use of those cut offs. I like your mix of friendship stars and churn dash blocks. It will be a fun border either way you decide to go with those blocks.
Wow! So pretty! Those little stars loolk like a lot of work but they'll be so worth it!
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