I've never done one of those before, Do you just sew the scraps to the roll of adding machine paper? and then just trim it to the width of the roll? What if your scrap is wider then the roll, how do you trim it?

How did you trim to the width of the roll of paper? What if your fabric was larger, how did you trim it to fit?

Roz

That really looks cool. I'm going to keep saving my scraps to give that a try. I really like that look..

Great suggestion...I'll try this when I get around to using my own adding machine strips.

The fabric scraps were most often larger than the edges of the paper, so that is why I felt like I had to sew the edges down.

After finishing a couple of feet, I sewed the edges down using about 1/8" seam from the edge--sewing from the paper side, and then trimmed the edges by just using scissors and trimming evenly with the paper.

It is the "perfect" border of this quilt. I'll try to get it done quickly...just have company here. I really am pleased. It won't be the last one I do!

Very true...I have done many scrappy squares, but this is a border of wonky pieces. I can't imagine trying to do a 3 or 2.5" border of weird shaped scraps without a stabilizer.

I really like how you pieced this scappy border, it has a lot of interest to it. Can hardly wait to see it finished.

I wanted to suggest something--but you already have sewn the pieced border on. I thought if you were going to have other borders on each side of this pieced one, you could first sew
borders on the strip piecing, then treat this whole unit as
one border. easier to handle a stretchy border if it is "held down" by outside borders. then you can miter or square
the corners or put cornerstones in. I do a lot of my borders like this so you only have to sew onto the quilt once.

At this point it wasn't stretchy at all because I left the paper on...so now I just have to get the paper off which is going to be very messy!

It's getting suspenseful...I'm looking forward to seeing the border on the quilt!