The "Stripes" One Yard Wonder x2 Project is a GO again!

You may remember when I started this quilt project in January? February 1st was the last time I showed it hanging on the fence by the driveway with all blocks except one sewn together and I was putting it on hold until later...

Well a couple of weeks ago my HGTV friend IowaLisa mailed me some red fabric from her stash - about 3 or 4 yards because from looking at my blog she thought she had something that would work well for a border since I had second thoughts about that floral fabric... and Take a look - I think she was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

for about a week I had it laid out on the dining room floor looking at it and evaluating it each time I passed by...

I do like the brown inner border but some how it just didn't seem to be enough... then I got to thinking about that gold color in the striped fabric... here's a close up of a block so you can see the gold I'm talking about...

so I took a trip upstairs and shopped my fabric stash... and found a goldish tan...

and I didn't have to leave it there for a week and pass by to decide...

I immediately thought YES! - I think I have found a winner! Thank you IowaLisa!

and maybe - JUST MAYBE - I can for the first time ever teach myself how to miter the borders! after all -the whole quilt is made up of mitered looking stripe blocks. Also I think sewing all three borders together before adding to the quilt top will save a lot of time of me down on the floor pinning for each round. ;)

Wish me luck on mitered borders! Any "MUST KNOW TIPS" you'd like to share with me? I'm planning to use Jaybird Quilts tutorial. Wish me luck!

So there you have it - this is what's on my design wall or rather design floor today - hop on over to the Mr Linky at JudyL's and see what everyone else is working on ;)

and while you're over at JudyL's - be sure and refresh her page by clicking on the Patchwork Times banner at the top to take you to her whole blog and scroll down and enjoy all the posts she's been sharing of FINISHING up Binding on all of her quilts! I think she's on #10 already!!!


Love from Texas!