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Diagram 3: Correctly cut and sewn borderswill have designs that “flow” around the corners.

Diagram 2: Cut three pieces identical to the first.

Jinny Beyer’s border prints are designed specifically with the quilter in mind. Each fabric has a wide and a narrow stripe whichcoordinate in both design and color. Both stripes have mirror-image motifs which are essential for perfectly mitered corners.In addition, the two different stripes in the border print are separated by at least a half-inch so that a 1/4" seam allowance isprovided for on both sides of the stripes. From selvage to selvage, there are always at least four repeats of each stripe across thefabric so calculating the yardage needed to border a quilt is easy: you need the length of the longest side of the quilt plus anadditional half-yard to match design elements and allow for the miters at the corners.

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Framing a Square Quilt1. Place a strip of the border print across the middle of the quilt, centeringa motif from the border at the exact center of the quilt. (Because of minordifferences in seam allowances taken and stretching that can occur on biasedges, opposite edges of a quilt often measure slightly differently. Using ameasurement taken from the middle of the quilt will help keep the quiltfrom “ruffling” at the edges.)

2. To mark the first miter, position a right-angle triangle so that one of thesides of the right angle runs along the bottom edge of the border print. Then carefullymove the triangle until the angled side touches the point where the top edge ofthe border print meets the edge of the quilt. (See arrow in Diagram 1.) Mark,then cut the miter line. (Because the miter is cut right at the edge of the quilt,the seam allowance is already included.)

3. Carefully pick up the mitered side of the border strip and lay it on top of thestrip on the opposite side of the quilt, right-sides together, placing the top edgeof the strip at the edge of the quilt. If necessary, adjust the top strip so that thedesign motifs on the top and bottom match exactly. If you have centered a motiffrom the border print in the middle of the quilt, the designs should match at theedges. Cut the second miter. (Using the cut edge as a guide, rather than the tri-angle, ensures that your design motifs will be an exact match.)

4. Using this first mitered strip as a guide, cut three more identical pieces, mak-ing sure that the design on the border print is exactly the same on all four pieces.

5. Mark seam intersection dots on the short side of each of your border strips. Tofind the spot, simply draw a short line 1/4-inch inside the mitered edge and theshort edge of the border strip. Mark the dot where the two lines intersect. Do thesame for each corner of your quilt.

6. To sew the borders to the quilt, pin the mid-point of one of the border pieces tothe middle of one of the edges of the quilt. Next, match and pin the dots on eachside of your border with the dots on the quilt corners. Continue pinning the borderto the quilt, easing in any fullness. (The edge of the quilt is usually a little widerthan the center because of bias edges or seams.) Sew the border to the quilt, start-ing and stopping at the dots. Sew the mitered seams last, starting from the insidedot. When pinning the edges together, be sure to match the design elements onboth pieces.

Diagram 1: Mark the miter.

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Diagram 4: Find andmark the center of the quilton the border strip.

Framing a Rectangular QuiltWith rectangles, you cannot always be assured that the designs willautomatically match at the corners so you must take an extra step.

1. First, follow steps 1-3 above and cut two identical strips for theshort ends of the quilt. The pieces for the other two sides of the quiltmust be cut differently: for the corners on all pieces tomatch, there must be a seam in these long pieces at the exactcenter of the quilt.

2. Place one of the cut strips on top of a length of the borderprint stripe, matching the fabric designs. Cut one miter tomatch the miter on the top strip. Set the top strip aside. Lay the newlycut strip on top of the quilt through the center, aligning one miterededge with the edge of the quilt. Mark the center of the quilt on thestrip as in Diagram 4. Move the strip from the quilt and cut it off ¼"beyond the center mark. Using this cut strip as a guide, cut one more

piece identical to it.

You also need two strips thatare the exact mirror images ofthese pieces. Using one of thestrips you just cut, flip it over and lay it on astrip of border print, matching the fabricdesign exactly. (The two strips will be rightsides together.) Cut the miter and straight edges tomatch the top piece. Using the newly cut strip as a guide, cut one more piece.

3. Sew the seams at the middle of two mirror-imaged strips and attach these bordersto the quilt as in Steps 5 and 6 in Framing a Square Quilt. Sewing the borders to arectangular quilt in this manner assures that the corners will match. There will be aseam at the center of the long strips (Diagram 5), but the design at that center willmirror-image as well, allowing the design to flow around the quilt.

Applying Multiple BordersJinny often designs quilts to make full use of the border prints. First, she willframe the quilt with the narrow border stripe, then add a coordinating fabric asa second border. The quilt is finished off with the wide stripe from the border print.

Jinny personally measures and adds each border separately. However, when themiddle border is a fabric that doesn’t have to be matched at the corners, sherecommends the following method as being a little faster: Sew the second bor-der to the first and then measure and cut them as a single border in the stepsabove. (If the quilt is rectangular, sew the second border to the first after it hasbeen pieced.) Measure, cut and sew the third border separately after the firsttwo borders have been completed and sewn to the quilt.

Binding the Quilt: When Jinny uses a border print to frame a quilt, she typicallysews the binding to the back of the quilt and turns it to the front. This allows her tocarefully hand-stitch the binding along a straight line printed on the border printfabric. For details, see www.jinnybeyer.com/binding.

Diagram 5: The long borders on rectangularquilts have center seams.

Diagram 6: Applying multiple borders

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