Quilters out there, if you have to piece together a one-fabric border, do you try to line it up so that the seam falls at the center of the quilt, or do you let seams fall wherever they may? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Mar25
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Goodness! I let the seams fall where they may–it never occurred to me to line up a seam with the center or anywhere else unless it’s an unusual print.
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I’m pretty lax about that. I am more of a use it all up quilter, though I limit the number of back seams as much as possible. I also tend to buy 120 inch muslin for backing. I’m pretty old school that way!
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I am also from the use-it-up school, but I once redid some borders because I didn’t like where the seams fell. Maybe I’m just picky.
As for the backs, when I started quilting in the 1980s, everyone used muslin for the backs. It was so economical. In the 1990s when people began using gorgeous fabric on the backs, it seemed so extravagant. I wondered how they could afford it–it doubled the cost of the quilt materials. I still piece a lot of backing from scraps or out of regular yardage; I’ve just started buying 108″ backing fabrics.
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Unless the border is really wide, I normally sew the seams on the bias so you really cant see where the connections are.
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Really? On your borders? I do that on my binding to reduce bulk, but I never considered doing diagonal seams on the borders.
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I do it on every straight line up to about 4 inches. The only reason I stop there is that it wastes so much fabric.
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