Stars in Her Crown #10: The Border

Esther's blocks 1-9

Stars in Her Crown

We've made a block for all nine Victorian children. Esther's looks great just

as it is but you may want to add a border.

Some outrageous Victorian inspired chintz would be fun like this

Isabelle Paisley from Dena Designs

Or piece a border, continuing the star theme.

Stars in Her Crown with Pieced Border

Denniele Bohannon's 9 blocks

12" Blocks

48" x 48"

Denniele's with border

Mark Lauer's finished quilt.

Here's a drawing of the pieced border, which continues the four-pointed

star out to the edge.

Border Patterns

You get 3 sheets this week

8-inch border - 1 sheet

Above, the pattern for the 8" version. 

All three triangular templates for the smaller blocks fit on one page whether you are template piecing or piecing over paper. The finished quilt will be 32" x 32".

12-inch border - 2 sheets

Finished quilt = 48" x 48"

The larger version 12" is pushing the limits of an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of paper. The templates

work fine but but for paper piecing below I'm trying to fit a 12" line on an 11-1/2" sheet of paper. 

Good luck! Your corners might get cut off. If you have an 8-1/2" x 14" piece of paper it would work better.

Sharon's 8" version.

24" square now

With the piece border: 32" x 32"