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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Quilt Block 138D ~ Seven Shirt Quilt- Border

 


Seven Shirt Quilt Along- Part4

This is a series of the process of making a
quilt from 7 men shirts.
An idea from "The Thrifty Quilter" blog that has been deleted from the internet.
 
 

This post shows how to piece the borders.
 
 
The First Border- Red
 
From the accent color garment, here it's red, use 2½ inch wide strips.
Sew together strips to lay across the bottom and top of quilt top.
Sew strips across the top & bottom .
Sew together strips to lay along each side.
Sew strips to sides of quilt top.
 

Then add 2½ inch wide strips to the sides.

The Piano Key Border
 
 Remember how strip sets were made for the 9 patch.
This time make one long strip set of 4 strips instead of 3
using the 2½ inch wide strips from the 4 dark shirts.
 
Cut the strip set into 6½ inch lengths to make 6½ x 6½ in blocks.
IF you don't want to make 1 long strip set,
just remember the goal is to make strip blocks 6½ square.

Place the 6½ inch strip blocks side by side around the quilt top.
You could measure, but this is easier for me.
Sew the 6½ inch blocks together side by side as shown.
Trim to match the sides.
 

 
 
The Corner Blocks
Create corner block using a pattern of your choice
using the remaining scrap pieces. 


For my first shirt quilt corner blocks,
The pieces cut off from the snowball blocks were pieced together.

Now your top is finished!

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Next, the backing will be made from the shirts as well!
 



1 comment:

  1. This is such a perfect quilt for a man. How I wish I still had all the shirts my dad had because he was a fan of plaid.

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