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    Old 04-29-2014, 12:49 AM
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    Originally Posted by Deb watkins
    Barb in Louisiana... nice job for the quilt on the EQ7! What a great little block!
    Thanks! I am using every opportunity to learn more about EQ7. I do like this block a lot. It may be a star in one of my quilts soon. I'm going to try a variation in the corners combined with a big block Snowball to see how that looks.
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    Old 04-29-2014, 01:13 AM
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    I added the strip in the corner of the block, then played around with the snowball to come up with this variation. One of these days I am going to have to sew one of these designs. I really like this one. I would make the strips around the snowball as a 3 part strip....light, blue, light, then cut my triangles from it for ease of getting the size right. The snowball edges ended up as a 3" blue with a 2" taupe. I think it gives it an elegance. I don't think I would go with the borders. I'm beginning to like the much smaller borders, letting the blocks shine.
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    Old 04-29-2014, 04:12 AM
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    Okay after re-reading margie154 I see she wants a table runner not a table topper. My bad!
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    Old 04-29-2014, 05:40 AM
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    One of our readers noticed that if I mitered the corners on the border, I would be carrying the diagonal look through the whole quilt. So I added the miters to EQ7. I like it. The blocks I created are 10" finished blocks. The borders are 1", 2", & 5" for the final had a finished size of 66" square. Thanks for the comments.
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