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08-22-2012, 10:12 PM

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oksewglad

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This is fantastic! Welcome to the club of craziness! It certainly can be addicting, just wait you will want to do more. Yes a nice 1/2" finished inner boarder would be nice (make it a dark fabric--would black work?) To determine the size of the second border fold your fabric to the finished size and see if you like it. I audition different fabrics for borders and you'd be surprised what is "the perfect" border. Were you thinking of HQ this? On pieces this small the quilting can sometimes detract from all the beautiful piecing. MQ straight rows down the center of your darks and then lights with an invisible nylon or polyester thread would reinforce the strong lines of your quilt and not detract from the piecing. Do you understand what I mean?
I, like you, have quilt friends save me their little scraps--I think they just wait to see what I will come up with. I have also sewn to finished 1/4", but haven't worked with HST's that size. Most of my mini's start out with what's in the tiny bin box and tell me how to finish them. I very seldom cut my pieces to size but just take from the say 3/4" or 1" box.
Here are a few of mine.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...i-t184391.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t181604.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...i-t146852.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...s-t149198.html

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