piecing border strips
#11
I prefer the diagonal seam. Your eye tends to flow over it instead of being stopped by a solid line. And when you quilt it you'll have to look hard to find the diagonal seam later, it practically disappears.
#14
I usually do diagonal on solid-color fabrics and straight on prints where the seam is less noticeable. When I do the diagonal, I make sure that I have all of the diagonals pointing in the same direction all the way around the quilt.
#15
I always did the diagonal until I made the Lover;s Knot quilt by Eleanor Burns. She said in her book to do the straight seam, so sometimes I join the borders like that and press the seams open. Since I do FMQ on my quilts I'm sure they will last as long as the quilt.
#16
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I depends. I do both. It often depends on how much fabric I have for the outer border. I like to make 8-10" borders which takes a lot of fabric to do the diagonal. If I have the fabric then I will do diagioal but if not then I do staight. My eperience has been that it really does not make much diffrence. For inner borders that are smaller then I do diagonal piecing.
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