beyer border prints - help?

**stillclock** · 09-04-2015, 07:57 PM

hi!

what are your tips and tricks and goof fixes for working to make these prints line up symmetrically?

i have read the tutorials, watched her videos and i am trying really hard. but i know people who do this have little tricks they use to fix goofs and prevent them.

please share?

i have 44 more corners to go....but here's an example of what i'm doing. two of the corners are perfect and two are not. i would love them to be just so, knowing they'll only ever be so close

thanks!

aileen

**quiltsRfun** · 09-04-2015, 08:35 PM

They all look good to me.

**nwm50** · 09-06-2015, 11:42 AM

Just wanted to say "wowed!"

**janedee** · 09-04-2015, 08:50 PM

I haven't any tips etc to offer, but just wanted to say I had to really study the block to see which corners you meant!! whatever you are doing looks really good. Love the colours and pattern - think its going to be a beautiful quilt.

**bearisgray** · 09-04-2015, 09:24 PM

You could make a template and mark the center of it, then center the template over your design and cut the pieces out one at a time.

There probably is a more efficient way of doing it, but by cutting out each piece separately, one has a lot of control over the placement of the template.

I once cut out a kaleidoscope quilt by cutting one piece, then laying that piece over the exact same place in the print and then cutting around the "original" piece - and using that first cut piece as a pattern for the rest of the pieces.

**stillclock** · 09-04-2015, 10:38 PM

and thank you, always always.

aileen

**grammysharon** · 09-05-2015, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by bearisgray

You could make a template and mark the center of it, then center the template over your design and cut the pieces out one at a time.

There probably is a more efficient way of doing it, but by cutting out each piece separately, one has a lot of control over the placement of the template.

I once cut out a kaleidoscope quilt by cutting one piece, then laying that piece over the exact same place in the print and then cutting around the "original" piece - and using that first cut piece as a pattern for the rest of the pieces.

I have only made one quilt with JB fabric for the border so I only had 4 corners to contend with. But I did measure around a motif and cut all the borders exactly the same. It does take precision cutting and sewing to make it come out perfect. I know I ripped out one corner a couple of times before it was right. Yours look great even if not perfect.

**stillclock** · 09-04-2015, 10:37 PM

hm....okay. but i think the problem isn't so much the cutting as making the mitres themselves. the blocks are absolutely square, so i centered the flower motif to the centre of the block. the worst of the corners is quite obviously off because while the block is square, it is not necessarily symmetrical.

i could of course just chill out. but jinny's are always so accurate so i know it's POSSIBLE you know?

aileen

**Maureen NJ** · 09-05-2015, 02:02 AM

Personally, I think it looks fine. I really had to look. I think if the narrow edge on either side of the flowers was off, that would be noticeable. Yours is perfect!

**liking quilting** · 09-05-2015, 03:13 AM

Love your block,and I liked Bearsisgray's suggestions.

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