Spring Medallion – The Spacer Border
Spacer borders are often vital to attaining the desired look of a quilt. This is especially true for Medallion Quilts since they are all borders!
There are two main reasons for adding a spacer border to a design. First we add a little (or big!) border to bring the center up to size so a pieced border will fit and/or so the border will be of a size that is easily divisible so the needed blocks can have “cuttable” measurements. The first (dark) border of our Spring Medallion was sized so the Flying Geese border would fit.
The second reason to add a Spacer Border to your quilt is for design purposes, such as when two lovely borders are next to each other and they need a little breathing space between to allow each to shine. This is the purpose of this week’s Spacer Border. The border of background fabric keeps our Twisted Ribbon border and our Pieced Scallop border from bumping up against each other.
This PDf examines the proper way to measure and apply a border:
Spring Medallion Quilt Spacer Border
Here at LynBrown.Com, there is always a lot going on, like our ongoing Spring Medallion Quilt, our Doll Quilt/Table Topper series, more of the Quilter’s Alphabet Block of the Week and our monthly 8″ swap/scrap quilt patterns. and here is a link to the whole file of our 2011 Monthly Mini Quilts. Browse around, there’s even more than that to see. And be sure to look at our Etsy site for even more patterns.
