Pat Speth was the speaker at our guild meeting last week and we spent about an hour enthralled with the 30+ quilts that she showed and the tips that she gave.
Her newest book is about making pieced borders and she had a wonderful demonstration where she showed over 30 different border ideas for one quilt. Here are a few of my favorites….
 
 
The absolute best tip that she gave was to not worry if the inner borders were different sizes. She suggested that it was more important to make the border pieces easy to work with…..no 7/8ths of an inch measurements!!!
I had always stayed away from different sized borders because I was afraid that it would make the quilt look weird.Â
But, does THIS quilt really look strange?? I found that I never noticed the quilts where the borders were different sizes until Pat pointed them out to us!!!
Here are a few other quilts that are made with 5 inch units….
 
I left the meeting quietly planning borders in my head!!!!
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Good tips about borders. Fortunately not many of my quilts need them as I work small but it's always good to have food for thought.