Sunday, August 30, 2015

Halloween Sudoku - Border Solution -


I decided to go with the orange with black spiders -

It definitely said "Halloween" -

And went well with the fabrics in the center portion of the quilt - ;))


The size of the fat quarter determined the width of the borders -
And I won't bore you with the MATH -
That dreaded four-letter word -

But I measured and cut from the short end of the fat quarter -
Leaving a strip on the selvage edge to use for the corner squares -
Then cut four strips for the sides and top and bottom -
Leaving an extra bit for the scrap bin -


I added black sashing strips to the ends of the borders -


Laid the side borders out to check the fit -


And cut the corner squares - ;))


After adding the side borders -

I sewed the corner squares to the top and bottom borders -


Sewed them on -
And got this -

Ta Dah! - ;))


Here's a close-up of the top left corner -


It's not exactly like the one Judy Sisneros uses in her book -
"9-Patch Pizzazz" - (c) 2006 - C&T Publishing, Inc. -

Because I had to tweak it to work with a sashing/cornerstone configuration -
As opposed to a simple inner border -

But I think it worked out pretty well - ;))

Not bad for making it up as I went along, huh? - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



2 comments:

Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana said...

Hi, I just love this Halloweeny project. It worked out perfectly, you clever girl you!

A Left-Handed Quilter said...

Thanks, Jocelyn - you come up as a "no-reply" blogger - and I have no idea how to find your email address in Google+ - so i will answer your comment here if you don't mind.

I am so glad that it actually worked out. Sometimes the picture in my head looks better than it does in "real life" - ;))

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