Diagonal stripes for a border???
#11
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The best fabric to work with would be one that looks like the stripes are on the diagonal, but are not. Have used that type of fabric for 1" borders, binding, etc. It would eliminate the problem w/the bias edges. This one is printed on the diangonal.
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#13
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I believe that I once used diagonal striped fabric for a border, but the fabric was printed on the diagonal; otherwise you would be dealing with bias edges all along the sides of the quilt. I have used diagonal stripes on bias binding for quilts, which I think looks kinda neat.
#14
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To get stripes on the diagonal, just cut the straight striped fabric on the diagonal, then use as normal for binding. I do french binding because it is thicker and easier to get everything to lay flat and smooth.
#16
I have used stripes on several of my quilts, both as borders and binding, however I have not put them on the diagonal. I'm sure it would look good, just not an extra challenge I wish to give myself.
#17
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striped border
I used stripes on this T-shirt quilt. I only had a slight obstacle when I had to lengthen the side borders since there were three colors, gray, yellow and black. Had to do straight across join in order to keep the colors matched. The seam was almost not visible. The fabric was a diagonal stripe.[ATTACH=CONFIG]523992[/ATTACH]
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