Does anyone know a good tutorial for a piano key border?
06-17-2014, 04:16 PM
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Does anyone know a good tutorial for a piano key border?
I've found several videos/instructions for a piano Kay border, but I'd like to mitre it rather than do a corner block, and I'm unsure how to make sure the strips/colors match up. I'm also wondering about the size of the border relative to the blocks. I've done a center pattern of 12 12" flying circle of geese on a black background, and wanted to do a border of piano keys using the colors of the geese. I was thinking of 6" keys, but maybe I should go smaller. Any suggestions would be so helpful!
06-17-2014, 04:25 PM
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If you don't have EQ you may have to sit down with good ole graph paper and work out the dimensions. To make the corners work to be mitered I would draw out the corners and go from there. 
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06-17-2014, 05:12 PM
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Try looking at this. http://bluemountainquiltersguild.ca/...Piano-Keys.pdf
06-17-2014, 05:42 PM
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Try looking at this. http://bluemountainquiltersguild.ca/...Piano-Keys.pdf
06-17-2014, 05:46 PM
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One way that I know to make an easy mitre corner with strips is to make the corner a block. It would be similar to the method that Bonnie Hunter uses to make her strip twist block.
So if your piano key border is 6.5" unfin you would make both of your strip blocks 6.5" unfin, lay them on top of one another RST, sew your seam diagonal from one corner to the other, use your ruler to measure 1/4" seam allowance from the diagonal seam and cut, press you block open and place as the corner block for your mitred corner look. Easy peasy.
I hope this makes sense. Your mitre block would look similar to the below. Each corner will need different orientation of the mitre block.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]479578[/ATTACH]
So if your piano key border is 6.5" unfin you would make both of your strip blocks 6.5" unfin, lay them on top of one another RST, sew your seam diagonal from one corner to the other, use your ruler to measure 1/4" seam allowance from the diagonal seam and cut, press you block open and place as the corner block for your mitred corner look. Easy peasy.
I hope this makes sense. Your mitre block would look similar to the below. Each corner will need different orientation of the mitre block.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]479578[/ATTACH]
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06-18-2014, 07:25 AM
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I did an Easy Breezy quilt and mitered the corners. I just made two identical sets of keys about 12" long (the keys were 6" wide) for each corner (so 4 sets of 2 identical set of keys) so that the strips would match, laid them out at the corners to mark the miters, then figured out how long the keys between the two corners should be.
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