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Will the quilt police come knocking at my door?

Old 12-30-2011, 02:19 PM
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Or more importantly...any reason why I should not do it this way?
I'm making a large quilt with a shoofly border.
Each shoofly will be one color (assorted) with white in the middle and corners.
Usually the shoofly block is made of nine patch with HST's in the corner.
What if I just cut one long strip and add white squares in the corner
and sew diagonal lines? That's for the top and bottom.
The middle will be as usual color square/white/color square.
Would that be ok? Or would it look better the traditional way?
Hope this is clear.

By the way, I'm talking about this shoofly block
http://quilting.about.com/od/blockof...ofly_quilt.htm
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Old 12-30-2011, 02:25 PM
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Can't hurt to try it that way- and remember the only rule we have is there are no rules Keep us posted on how it works.
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Old 12-30-2011, 02:28 PM
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Your quilt, your rules. Have you considered just making it a 9-patch with the corners and center white and the other 4 the color? As a border it would be like a dot-dash pattern in alternating colors in the three rows. With mitered corners it would work just fine. Whatever you decide will be fine...and there are no quilt police, really there aren't.
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So your talking about a cutting a rectangle that's 3 units long by 1 unit wide (including seam allowances) and sticking a triangle on each end? That would work.

BTW, I hadn't seen this shoo fly variation before, so thanks for the block.
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Old 12-30-2011, 02:50 PM
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Oh wait, do you mean sew the white squares in the corners of the rectangle with a diagonal line and then flip the down pointing point up to make a triangle? That would work, yes, but trim off the two layers (color and white) that are under the top white triangle (trim to a ¼" seam). Make sense? The only difference would be no vertical seams in the top and bottom pieces. Sounds pretty smart to me!

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Old 12-30-2011, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ghostrider View Post
Oh wait, do you mean sew the white squares in the corners of the rectangle with a diagonal line and then flip the down pointing point up to make a triangle? That would work, yes, but trim off the two layers (color and white) that are under the top white triangle (trim to a ¼" seam). Make sense? The only difference would be no vertical seams in the top and bottom pieces. Sounds pretty smart to me!
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I think I will give this a go and see how I like it.

Thanks everyone!
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Old 12-30-2011, 04:13 PM
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Anyone running into quilt police should look them straight in the eye and say, "On my quilt I'm the Police Commissioner and it will be done the way I want it." Then just smile and walk away.
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Good answer, raptureready!
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There is no such thing as the Quilt Police... only rude opinionated people.
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Old 12-31-2011, 08:16 PM
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Thanks for your encouragement. I made the block and I'm very happy with it.
I will definitely use this method for my border. I made a small tutorial but
can't upload it. Can't even upload a photo tonight. Will try again later or
tomorrow. Happy New Year!!!
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