Borders, Borders, Borders!
Can you see what is happening here?
If it’s not perfectly clear, I’ve got the one big long border length I made face down on the machine bed and I am stay-stitching down both sides of the border length to anchor all of those seams and also preventing any stretch.
Piano key borders are like accordions…they really do have a lot of give, so stitching down either side just shy of 1/4” from the edge will help with all of that.
And doing it back-side-up allows me to manage which way the seams need to go so they don’t go flipping on the feed dogs.
So what’s the next step? Since I’m not going to hand quilt this one (As the video says it would take me 3 years from Christmas to get it done…) and I’m going to long arm with a baby pink thread to not shout out too loud against the white areas –
I can go a bit more piece-y on my backing!
Let’s clear out some stuff that has been sitting around for too long, shall we?
