Panel Quilt

[rebeccas-sewing]

[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.

Jeez Louise! My borders look wavy in the pic. It's just because I've got pins holding it in place. After just posting that tutorial on wavy borders I better not be showing you a quilt with waves. I haven't even washed out all the markings for the quilting. Yikes! Trust me! It's gonna be super duper when I'm finished! Hahaha!