Bonnie Hunter 2025/26 -- Lupine and Laughter
02-06-2026, 04:50 PM
#451
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ballwin, MO
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Help! I'm very nervous about my pieced Indigo Way borders. Do any of you remember if yours were substantially longer than the side they had to go on? Mine are about 1/2" too long per half side. I've eased them in with pins but haven't yet sewn. What will be the result of all of this easing in of the border? Will it be wavy/fluttery? How did you deal with this, and any suggestions? I suppose I could take the pieces apart and use a larger seam, but I hate to do that at this point, when I'm itching to finally be done with this.
02-07-2026, 12:50 PM
#453
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Location: Oro Valley, AZ
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joe'smom, I'm here holding my breath for you. lol I took off the neutral and blue borders because they caused waves which was why I took them off. Now, I'm getting ready to iron my top and measure (twice) then recut those borders. And yes I'm nervous about putting the final border on.
02-07-2026, 03:20 PM
#454
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Well, I took drastic measures. I decided I'd rather have an anomalous border than a wavy one (and I could see from the pinning that the pieced border was going to be wavy if i eased it in). So I re-pinned the border to fit and just trimmed off the excess of the last triangle. My reasoning was, since there is something of an anomaly there with that 90 degree angle (from the hst), maybe it would just look like an extension of the corner anomaly. If it turns out to be terrible and I feel that it ruins the quilt, I can always make a few more red and blue V units and try something else. Good luck to you, Sync!
02-09-2026, 04:53 PM
#455
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So here she is! I don't mind the corners all that much, it would be nicer if they were all the same, but I stuck with working from the halfway point, so they're all a bit different as far as how much had to be trimmed off..
Rather than moving right to putting another quilt together (which would be my Harriet's Journey to Key West sampler, which is at the sashing stage), I'm going to work on a simpler quilt, the fabrics for which have been sitting in a grocery bag on my sewing room floor for years. It's a large block (6") HST quilt and should be fun. I will continue with my leader/ender Lupine & Laughter, which has been such a great motivator for me, because of the pretty colors and the anticipation of seeing what it will eventually look like.
It might take me as long to snip the threads on the back of the Indigo Way as it took to sew it, LOL.
Rather than moving right to putting another quilt together (which would be my Harriet's Journey to Key West sampler, which is at the sashing stage), I'm going to work on a simpler quilt, the fabrics for which have been sitting in a grocery bag on my sewing room floor for years. It's a large block (6") HST quilt and should be fun. I will continue with my leader/ender Lupine & Laughter, which has been such a great motivator for me, because of the pretty colors and the anticipation of seeing what it will eventually look like.
It might take me as long to snip the threads on the back of the Indigo Way as it took to sew it, LOL.
02-10-2026, 08:14 AM
#457
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Join Date: Jun 2021
Location: British Columbia
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Beautiful finish, Quossum - you must be so pleased with your first mystery quilt!
Joe'smom - I think you made a great decision re: your Indigo Way borders, and I don't honestly think the corners are something people are ever going to focus on unless you draw attention to them. ;-) They've all got the same "feel" even if they're not identical, and once the quilt is on a bed they won't all be visible together.
Joe'smom - I think you made a great decision re: your Indigo Way borders, and I don't honestly think the corners are something people are ever going to focus on unless you draw attention to them. ;-) They've all got the same "feel" even if they're not identical, and once the quilt is on a bed they won't all be visible together.
