Piano key borders
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Piano key borders
Wanting to use my scraps to make rolls of piano key borders, so I purchased two different size cash register receipt rolls. One is 2 1/4" inches and seems small to me, so may use it for a baby quilt. The other is 3 1/8" wide and to me still not wide enough. On average, what size piano key is commonly used? In hindsight, probably should have stolen my husbands old phone books and cut them up to use!!
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For a bed sized quilt, I would use wider ones also. What do you use for paper piecing normally? I have used the big phone book pages and if I have longer strips just covered them and then cut them into the width I want. If you go full out scrappy, you may get two different size strips. Umm sounds like a good in front of the TV project to use up my strings.
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If you haven’t used the cash register tapes before it is my opinion too that these are too narrow for borders UNLESS you use them for an inner border and come back with a larger outer border all around. That may be an option for you to think about. I used my 2 1/4 as stripping or sashing between blocks. I have one posted somewhere in Pictures of recycled denim squares set on point, framed with the scrappy 2 1/4. It’s a favorite throw.