Me? Sadly, no. But this mini quilt from my book will be there, in the
Paperpieces.com booth!
The patterns in the back of the book were all just done as samples (except for p. 109, Ayane's star. There's a photo of the quilt on p. 48), so I quickly added borders and quilted it up in time for Market.
I took a few photos of the process, and while it's far from a full tutorial, I thought I'd post them to show how I did it..
* First I cut border strips 4" wide and lined one up with the lines on my
cutting mat. Then I carefully placed the freshly-pressed EPP patchwork
on top, overlapping the bottom edge of the border. (When you press your EPP, remember to tuck in any seam tails).
* Next I took my ruler and lined up the top of the border strip with the 4" mark on the ruler. I gently pulled the EPP down until the inner points of the edge were aligned with the ruler's 1/2" mark. (Look at the 9 at the center of the ruler).
* Then I carefully pinned the EPP part to the border strip.
* And machine topstitched it into place. This is a view from the back so you can see that 1/2" of the border is underneath the innermost points of the EPP. I do not cut away the excess at the top points.
For this piece, I cut my border strips extra long and mitered the corners. I would have taken photos except I bribed George for quilting time by letting him play Bad Piggies on my phone and he was getting tired of pausing the game so I could take step-by-step shots. I was too lazy (and in a hurry) to find the real camera, so this is as far as the tutorial goes. Hope it makes sense. If anyone has questions, just ask.
I am very happy that a little part of me will be at Market this month, and happy too that I have a small finish to link up this week at
Crazymomquilts. If you are lucky enough to be going to Houston, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!! And
please post often to Instagram so I can follow along from home!
