dray965

I am reading Marti Michell's book, "Machine Quilting in Sections", because this is how I will have to quilt my queen-sized guilt for my granddaughter's bridal shower gift. I am using a domestic machine with a 6 1/2-inch throat.

My quilt calls for a mitered border that is about 16 inches in depth. Because the quilt is so large and my throat is so small, I have no choice but to section it.

(Go to this link to see the depth of border that I'm talking about. The ruffle shown in the pic is not part of the quilt, but underneath it...possibly a bed skirt or some such.)

Marti has an example in her book where she added a quilt border using the stitch-and-flip method. She just stitched the straight part of the edges to the center of the quilt, then fliped it and then she says she 'mock mitered' the rest. She says, "this corner is actually more easily completed with a mock miter; that is hand stitching from the top, like appliqueing one border edge to the next."

I'm thinking that she is just turning in the seam edge and doing a blind or ladder stitch...but the 'applique' term is throwing me off. Is this what you think she means?

If someone has done this could advise me or can send me to a tutorial link I would appreciate this.

Also...I'm wondering what the difficulty would be to just machine stitch it...however, that may be a dumb wondering because I've never mitered a border before.

I really have no choice but to quilt the middle and add the borders to the top lastly because of the small throat of my machine....but just stumped as how to miter that border if I'm adding to an already-quilted middle.

Suggestions?

TIA