Originally Posted by Bluphrog
By knife edge, do you mean what I call a floating border?
I cut strips 1" wide, fold and press wrong sides together, then sandwich between the first and second borders. When you sew the border on, it makes a neat 1/4" border (kind of like a flat piping, if that makes any sense). In this case, it would lay on top of the white border, and would really set the purple floral off.
Yes, though I've always heard it called a knife's edge. I love the technique and it frames a quilt so beautifully!