The Bee in my Bonnet Row Along - Another Tutorial!!!...Inner Stop Border...

Good morning cute people! 

Today is inner stop border day...

tomorrow will be outside border day:)

I love to put a stop border in most of my quilts.

I think it's a nice addition between the 

inside center of the quilt and the outside borders...

and it's a great way to add a nice contrasting color to the outside border.

I am using white and aqua:)

Cut the selvedge off the ends.

Join all of the white strips together on the diagonal 

so that you have one long strip.

Press all of the seams open for less bulk.

Repeat for the print.

If you need a reminder on how to do this...

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to go back to my detailed tutorial on sashings from row 2.

The long strip of your print...

one goes on the top of the quilt and one goes on the bottom.

Set remaining aside for later.

Fold the strips in half to find the center

 and do a quick press there with your iron 

to make a crease so that you always know where the center is.

Find the top center of your quilt and crease the same way.

Match up the center creases and pin.

(with right sides together)

Now pin the ends...

And then pin in-between...

using as many pins as you need for easing in to make it fit.

After pinning...sew across the top.

Repeat for the bottom with the remaining strip.

Press the seams towards the print.

Now for the sides.

From BOTH the background and the print 

long strips that you have joined...

Pin and sew the print strips 
to the background strips like this.

***From the remaining white strip...

Cut 2 long strips and set aside for later.

Press the strips that you have just 

sewn together towards the print. 

Now you are ready to sew one to each side of the quilt.

Again...

begin by finding the centers..

pressing a crease and

pinning from the center out.

***Make sure that your PRINT goes on the 

outside of your quilt when pinning!!!

So that when you sew and flip it out to press...

the WHITE will be on the outside:)

Sew both combined strips to the sides of

 your quilt like this...

and press towards the print.

Now sew your background strips

that you set aside... 

to the top and the bottom of your quilt.

Press towards the background.

Now your quilt is ready for the

pieced outside border!

As I said before...

I will be using one fabric for mine.

You can use one fabric too... or make it scrappy.

I'll show you all about it tomorrow!!!

Have a quilty kind of day...

xx

Lori

***(edit)July 18

The Row Along is over now and the pattern is now in my new book along with somw new blocks and 10 "spin off" projects from the quilt.

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to reserve your copy!