Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Personally I don't like diagonal seams in the borders. If you have a 6 inch wide border every one of those seams wastes 6 inches of fabric.
It is only wasted if you throw it away or never use it. I have always ended up using those scraps in other projects or elsewhere in the same project. A triangle that big has loads of uses.
Okay, you turn 6 inches of fabric into scraps for every diagonal seam you do on a 6 inch border. Just because you can use it in a scrap project later isn't very helpful if you only have so much of a fabric or have to keep going back and buying more.
There just isn't a really good reason to turn that much fabric into scrap if you don't have to.