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Old 11-26-2016, 05:09 PM
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Shoofly1
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I recently purchased "Quilting for People Who Still Don't Have Time to Quilt" by Marti Michell from Amazon. She has instructions for adding several types of borders (1) traditional types before it is sandwiched and quilted, and (2) modified quilt-as-you-sew borders. In the number 2 method, instead of adding borders to the quilt the traditional way and having to squish the entire quilt through the sewing machine, only the patchwork interior of the quilt is quilted. After that section is quilted, borders are added to the quilt as you normally would except you sew through the batting and backing at the same time. She says: "The point is, you have to make a seam to add the border fabric to the quilt top, so why not quilt at the same time?" I haven't made any of the quilts in this book yet, but there are quite a lot of them I like and that are now on my "to do" list.
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