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    Rebecca, what an adorable quilt you are making. Carolyn, I rarely make a pieced border. When I do, I adjust the squares downward until it fits. You can't see where one square is a tiny bit smaller than the others, especially if you adjust several blocks and not just one. This only works if you aren't off by much. I love Rebecca's idea of making a small border until it fits.

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    That is so cute! I just bought a panel with that same red and yellow bird. It's got a growth chart on the side of it, which I plan to cut off and just show the birds. I think that will be my next project. Perfect for hanging this time of year.

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    I neeeeeeeeeeeed that panel!! Please could you tell us the name of it?

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    Mrs. Daisy - on my panel, it says
    world of Suzybee for Hamil Textiles Design #SB20078.

    Try this:
    line.http://www.worldofsusybee.com/textil...e.php?cat_id=1

    Her panel should come up. Then, click on the arrow that goes to the right. That one shows the panel I have. Aren't they adorable?

    Now, I am going back to see the other designs they have.

    Thank you to the one who posted how to post a link cause that's just how I did this!!!

    OH MY! Be sure to click on her gallery which is listed at the top of the page. It talks about the artist and how she paints murals in a childrens hospital. I love the 3 little kids gazing at the stars and the bear lounging in the polka-dotted hammock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine View Post
    I figured something out for you. Can I PM you to tell you how you could get it to be 44" wide by 64" long? It would be adding borders and patches of borders to make it bigger. I'm trying to figure out how to make a D9P patch end up 4" square, haven't gotten that one done yet. Having to renew my 5th grade lessons in fractions, and that teacher was no good at teaching math, I've been bad at it ever since.

    Did you ever get my email address, Jean? I PMed it twice but not sure I did it correctly. LMK

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    Quote Originally Posted by madampolo View Post
    Rebecca, what an adorable quilt you are making. Carolyn, I rarely make a pieced border. When I do, I adjust the squares downward until it fits. You can't see where one square is a tiny bit smaller than the others, especially if you adjust several blocks and not just one. This only works if you aren't off by much. I love Rebecca's idea of making a small border until it fits.
    Thanks so much for your good advice. I'm waiting for Jean's math and then I'll figure out which method I'll use. (pieced or just borders.). The problem is that the panel is so skinny so I need to make up the width somehow.

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    [QUOTE=rebeccas-sewing;124443]Attachment 21297[ATTACH=CONFIG]21298[[ATTACH=CONFIGOne way I've found to avoid lots of math and mistakes is to make the quilt fit the border instead of the border to fit the quilt. I do it my making the borders larger than the quilt. Then I take the difference in measurements between the quilt and the pieced border. I make a regular border plus 1/2" for seams the length of the difference I got when I subtracted the quilt size from the size of the pieced borders. This is a quilt I'm working on. The second border of flying geese were made before the first little green border. That little green border filled in the difference between the quilt and the flying geese border. I hope that's clear.

    I think your quilt looks adorable now, Rebecca! I get what you are saying but my problem is how skinny the width of the panel is. I feel that somehow I need to make it a little wider without making it longer than about 70". So any boarders ( ha ha, just kidding, Jean) cannot be equal in width. In other words, if I just double the whole quilt it will be a goofy 48"x80"

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    Seriously laughing out loud over this Jean. You know what they say about great minds thinking alike. You got my funny bone.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine View Post
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    so would I.....keep adding strips until you get it to the size you want....add piano key borders to both sides to widen it and then add strips to finish it out

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    I'm with Lilmouse. Just add some borders to the sides first to get it closer to what you want. Then add one additional border just to the top and bottom. You don't have to have the same border/s on all four sides. Also if you do pieced borders only on the sides (to add interest) it'll be easier to figure out the sizing. Once those go on then you can cut plain borders for top and bottom. If you don't like that you can still add a plain border all the way around to frame it. I think I'd be brave and make some pieced borders for the sides. Then figure out what to do with the plain border after.
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