Originally Posted by
SuzSLO
I’m working on a medallion quilt that will have a hand sewn vine appliqué in the second to last border and a pieced final border (with appliqué blocks in the corners. My question is sew on both borders, then do the vine or sew the vine on its border, trim, then attached the final pieced and appliqués border?
Also, would you do a mitered corner for the background of the vine border? I was going to miter the corners but realized that the top/bottom measure 40.5 inches. Without metering, I won’t need to piece that border; with mothering, I will.
I have done a medallion quilt with a vine border and I found it easier to work with the border by itself and then attach it to the main quilt. You didn't mention how large your quilt is, but mine was a queen-sized quilt. Working with all that material is really difficult when you are appliqueing. Just make sure that you have extra length and width in the border because it may shrink a bit after you finish appliqueing.