Sawtooth Star...The Borders Quilt-along...

Round 3 of The Border Quilt...quilt along!! Sawtooth Stars!! Make sure to check out Patterns By Jen for the pattern if you are just joining me. This is a cool quilt with mulitple borders which leaves lots of room to personalize and make it your own!! Go to her blog HERE to see how she makes these stars and find the other blogs sewing along!!

If you remember from my first post HERE, I am going really scrappy and quite spur of the moment designing with this quilt. The fabrics used in this round where literally the top ones in the magical gray tote of fabric....check out the first post to see that I am not lying!!!

Jen writes great easy to follow instructions in her patterns. I just tend to be a rebel and usually go my own path...I cut my pieces with the AccuQuilt.

Unassembled sawtooth stars....all cut with the GO! 8" MIx & Match Qube. Isn't that animal print just so adorable!! I have very little of it left from a Dahlia quilt workshop in my guild. It found the perfect place to live in thie Borders Quilt.

If you don't have one of these cutting gizmos in your sewing room....you should...I am not affiliated, just a fan!!

I choose to make 8 sawtooth stars and fill the remaining spaces with large scales print fabrics.

We haven't seen the sun here in Northwest Iowa for 2 weeks, with the last week being cold and rainy!! Most of our crops are still in the fields that have water standing in them like you see in this photo from our patio this morning. At least it isn't snow...which I am guessing Jen has today!!

So working with these bright, happy and colorful fabric was a total bright spot in my life last night!!!

Photo fail!! Like I said...cold...38 degrees and WINDY.

Indoors for the photo today.

Bookmark October 24 for the next round!! See you then!!!

Lucky readers today!! I was part of an online Row Along--you can read that HERE.
There was an Electric Quilt giveaway which is now closed....BUT Electric Quilt has offered a great discount code to all my readers!! 20 percent off any EQ product except classes. Great deal!!
The coupon code is: STBSRA20

The expiration is October 23, 2018

 Nancy - Masterpiece Quilting

 Vicki - My Creative Corner3 

Becca - Pretty Piney

 Kate - Seams Like A Dream

 Terri - Lizard Creek Quilting

 Joanne - Quilts By Joanne

 Marija - Mara Quilt Designs

 Alison - Little Bunny Quilts

 Stephanie - Quilt'n' Party

 Daphne - Daphne Greig

 Tara - The Quilt District

Border Quilt Along....checkerboards....

Checkerboard borders!!! Oh how fun they can be.....if I would have just followed the instructions as Patterns by Jen so nicely created for her Borders Quilt!!

....but this stack of 10" sqaures was on top of the pile in the gray tote....so just going scrappy with them!!!

Stacked them up no more than six layers on my AccuQuilt 2 1/2" strip cutter die....and cut the 10" sqaures into strips.

Layered the cut strips perpendicular to the blades on the die and cut again...

With just a couple passes through the GO! Big--multiple 2 1/2" sqaures. I did run a few stacks through the cutter again--as those pesky pinked edges really mess with me!!!

Love me a fabric closeup!!

Just keep piecing....piecing....piecing. Here is when I ran into a bit of trouble--no fault to Patterns by  Jen!! As I said before--those pesky pinked edges get me every time I work with precuts!!! I should have checked that my 1/4" seam allowance was true and working with these pieces. I didn't and ended up doing a bit of unsewing and resewing to make the borders fit correctly.
This is a Borders Quilt--so I had better make sure that each border is the correct size with each round--or my quilter---me---might charge me an extra fee for ruffled border!!! LOL

Now this photo shows a bit of ruffling--but it does lay flat and the measurements are correct. Hopefully I follow Jen's wonderful instructions better on the next round!!! Come back on October 10 to find out!!!
Make sure to go to Jen's blog for more information and links to all the other inspirational bloggers!!

Nancy - Masterpiece Quilting

Vicki - My Creative Corner3

Becca - Pretty Piney

Kate - Seams Like A Dream

Terri - Lizard Creek Quilting

Joanne - Quilts By Joanne

 Marija - Mara Quilt Designs

Alison - Little Bunny Quilts

Stephanie - Quilt'n' Party

Daphne - Daphne Greig

Tara - The Quilt District

The Borders Quilt......quilt along....

Welcome to the first round of The Border Quilt by Patterns by Jen...you can find the pattern here on her Etsy shop or to find more information on the quilt along--you can go to her blog here.

I was so excited when Jen let me know I was going to be a part of her Borders Quilt quilt along!!
All kinds of questions went through my mind--what colors should I use, how many borders
should I add, what will I talk about??
Then I turned away from the computer and my gaze landed upon this quilt I made a few years ago at a retreat with Eyta Sitar as the teacher. Inspiration!! I had so much fun just using random colors pulled from the suitcase of fabric I had brought along to use.

So here you go--the Borders Quilt is right here in this gray tote!! I have been collecting  various size cuts of bright, colorful, modernish fabrics and storing them here under my ironing table for a few years--and now is the time to use them!! No planning just random mix and match using the fabric that speaks to me on the day!!

Now if you are more the planning type sewist--go check out Jen's blog here where she has so generously provided a fabric planning for you to download.

Over the summer, Jen has been interviewing the bloggers that will be a part of her quilt along. Brilliant solution to her problem of fabric not arriving as scheduled.
You can find the interview she did with me here.

So here it is..my center for the Borders Quilt. Since I am going to be going randomly scrappy with the Borders Quilt, my thought is to keep the center simple. This word fabric from Art Gallery was just the right one!!

Stay tuned for what might inspire the next round!! And check out all the other bloggers participating.

 Nancy - Masterpiece Quilting

 Vicki - My Creative Corner3 

Becca - Pretty Piney

 Kate - Seams Like A Dream

 Terri - Lizard Creek Quilting

 Joanne - Quilts By Joanne

 Marija - Mara Quilt Designs

 Alison - Little Bunny Quilts

 Stephanie - Quilt'n' Party

 Daphne - Daphne Greig

 Tara - The Quilt District