Double Delight, Borders!

My double delight quilt has progressed to the border stage. Bonnie Hunter is well know for her pieced borders but apparently she hadn't reached that point yet when she wrote this pattern. Her borders are plain, just a wider border with 9 patches in the corners which is ok but I wanted something more interesting.

I had 3 ideas in mind for my border. Since I had so many 9 patch blocks pieced, I decided to go with that idea. I actually didn't have to make anymore 9 patches which made the borders sew faster. 9 patches on point was the idea, a 3" finished 9 patch measures 4.25" on point

I cut 5.5" squares diagonally into 4 triangles and sewed 2 of them on the sides of the 3" patches. Using triangles cut like this ensured the bias would be on the inside of the row, not on the outside.

I trimmed off the dog ears after the borders were pieced. 

I'm going to leave you hanging, the next post will show you the completed quilt flimsy. And no, I won't be writing a pattern to share with you. Pattern writing is not one of my skills but if I can figure out how to do this, so can you!

Double Delight is a free Bonnie Hunter pattern and is located at the very bottom of her free pattern page.

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