Our company headed north this morning, and DH left for the golf course at 7:30, so I headed right to my sewing room.
I managed to get the borders sorted out and attached to plaid quilt number 3. I had to get creative, because none of my left-over yardage was long enough for the final border. The pattern for the centre was "Smokey Mountain Stars" from Quiltville.
I "double stitched" the corner squares and had lots of half-square triangle units left, so I sewed most of them into pinwheel blocks, then used some of the leftover strips from plaid quilt #2 to make them the right size to fill the gap in the final border.
Since the two borders had corner squares, I used leftover strips from plaid quilt #1 to make strippy corner squares.
Now I have to get busy and make up the backs for each of these quilts. Then I'll plan a pin-basting binge with DH - he is an awesome help! I am determined to have NO LEFTOVER PLAID to take home in the spring!
Pretty! Nice way to use up the scraps and make the borders fit.
ReplyDeleteI like it and I've always liked that slanted star pattern. Very clever
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