This blog post is an import from my old website – enjoy this blast from the past!

Sometimes plans in my head don’t actually work out when it come to fabric and sometimes my lack of a plan bites me in the ass. In either  case I am stuck to figure out how to either save a project or if I want to scrap it.

Truth be told I rarely scrap a project but I will put it away for a jolly long time until  I once again trip on it and find new inspiration in what was before a project that was going nowhere.

In the case of “Rare Beauty” I had done the center panel and then was stuck.  I felt like it was too narrow. I added mitered trim borders.. better, but still stuck and missing something.

And there it sat… and sat….. and sat some more as I would try ideas, one after an other only to reject them for some reason or another.

I suspected that I was going to have to take off the borders and damn if I did I not want to do that since I had mitered them and had no more of the fabric with which to replace them.

Stew- Think – Grumble …………………

Since the whole heart of this quilt was applique I came up on the idea of adding applique strips that would look as if they have been pieced into the border… now I was getting somewhere.

So side by side I created an internal border and used some dots ofRoxanne Glue-Baste-It to hold it in place as I made sure it was lined up exactly with the seam.
The Roxanne Glue-Baste-It also made sure that I was getting a perfect miter at the corners.. after all if you are going to fake it you need to do it right!
Next I went around the whole (new) border with a custom sized buttonhole stitch ( thank you Bernina 830!) – Once again the Roxanne Glue-Baste-It was an amazing help here.. no scooting or buckling . just smooth sailing the whole way!
 Have you gotten the point about how much glue can be your third hand in the sewing room?
I have no idea what is next but at least I am back on the path to getting this piece done!
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