help please -thin inserted border technique
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help please -thin inserted border technique
Hi everyone!
A while back (specific, eh?) someone posted a technique for adding a super skinny line/border/piping/flange (can't think of the correct name) that was inserted between two wider borders. The technique may have been posted within a thread, rather than as a separate post. Since I can't even remember the name of the technique, I am having no luck finding it - you have no idea how many posts come up when you use the search terms "thin border"!!
Anyone remember that thread? Or can give me a synopsis on how to do it? I remember how impressed I was with the accuracy and straightness of the finished border/piping/flange combination...
Thanks in advance.
Alison
A while back (specific, eh?) someone posted a technique for adding a super skinny line/border/piping/flange (can't think of the correct name) that was inserted between two wider borders. The technique may have been posted within a thread, rather than as a separate post. Since I can't even remember the name of the technique, I am having no luck finding it - you have no idea how many posts come up when you use the search terms "thin border"!!
Anyone remember that thread? Or can give me a synopsis on how to do it? I remember how impressed I was with the accuracy and straightness of the finished border/piping/flange combination...
Thanks in advance.
Alison
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I made a table runner pattern that called for a thin strip, maybe 1" or 1-1/4" wide, ironed wrong sides together down it's length and then sewed within the seam allowance for border #1. When you added border #2 this stip lay flat towards border #1. It added little in the way of bulk and looked really nice.
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I have done this on a recent quilt. You cut a strip 1" and sew 1/2" seam to the outside border then attach to quilt body/inside border with the 1/4" seam. This leaves 1/4" skinny border showing. It lays flat so when it is quilted your sewing foot will not hang in a flange.
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I made a table runner pattern that called for a thin strip, maybe 1" or 1-1/4" wide, ironed wrong sides together down it's length and then sewed within the seam allowance for border #1. When you added border #2 this stip lay flat towards border #1. It added little in the way of bulk and looked really nice.
Thanks!
Alison
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I undoubtedly have a picture! I may even have uploaded the original pattern...one never knows. The thin, thin strips between batik and border are what I am talking about.
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