Thread: Quilt boarders

Originally Posted by Jan in VA

P.S. This word is spelled b-o-r-d-e-r, not with an "a".
With an "a" the word means someone who lives temporarily or is renting in a property....as in a boarding house.

Love ya,
Jan in VA

Thank You Jan! This drives me crazy but then that's my problem!! I wonder if it's people's spell check programs that are changing the word "border" to "boarder". If we don't scan what we write before hitting that "send" button we can end up saying things we didn't mean.

And often the finger is quicker than the eye and unable to return to correct.

Originally Posted by maviskw

Thanks Jan. But boarding actually has to do with the meals you get at the boarding house. The dictionary says a boarding house is: "A private home that provides meals and lodging for paying guests." Sometimes you see adds for houses that have "room and board".
I love nit-picking this kind of stuff. I have a book called "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner. The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English. You'd never believe how funny it can be to read about this.
(My computer doesn't like Grammarphobe, but that's what is in the book.)

Depending on how much fabric I have I don't usually care if I put on the sides or the top/bottom first. It does save fabric to put the sides first but I don't always like how that looks, it depends on the blocks I think. Sometimes it depends on the fabric for me too, in some cases I do corner squares. One thing I don't really think about that was mentioned here is about the fabric grain. I know there is a stability issue this addresses but isn't that only if they will be hung? And I also find centers and pin there as well as the ends first, and then work my way in to keep the fabrics even. That does seem to make a difference. But I think you should do your borders any way you like. No quilt police here.

Originally Posted by sushi

The ancient Greeks built their temples by, in effect, adding the side borders (walls) first and then adding the top border (roof). Most of us have appreciated and copied that "look" ever since. To me, it is still the more pleasing of the two alternatives.

Wouldnt it it be a bit difficult to put up a roof without the walls to keep it up there? Not in construction, so maybe there's a way, but not my forte.......

I do the longest side first. If equal, then ditto what DOTTYMO stated.

Originally Posted by DOTTYMO

If a rectangle finished quilt I do sides first top and bottom last. If a square with no way up then it doesn't matter which you do first or last as long as you do opposite pairs not like a log cabin unless it is part of the pattern.