AKA quilt - Borders pt. 2

It has been a crazy week. Work has depressed my spirit a lot, and when I come home from work, I don't have the creative juices to work on any of my projects. But this weekend, I decided that maybe finishing the AKA quilt top would inject a little excitement in my otherwise sad and angry week.


Option three is the one I decided to go with. Charmain liked it the best and since this quilt is for her, I went with it. Here is a reminder of option three.





I decided that I was going to try to do mitered borders on this quilt. I've never done that before. Usually, I just let the two ends meet naturally and let that be that. Look closely at the polka dot material. The piece on the left meets the piece on the right and there is a straight seam.




It worked well on that quilt. Since this one has three borders, I thought a mitered corner might look better. In a mitered corner, the seam is diagonal and brings the fabrics to a point.



The pink border is the only one that is not mitered. See the seam near the bottom right hand corner of the picture? I learned that I like the look of mitered corners much better, but they are a little more work. For this quilt, I think it was worth it.

Here it is! The finished quilt top! I spread it out on my guest bed so that you could get a better look. It's a full sized mattress. It's a little bigger than I had pictured in my mind, but I really like the size. Glad I didn't go with the dimensions in my original sketch. I had the center rectangle at almost two yards. This thing would've been huge!!!!

Right now, I'm figuring out how much fabric I'll need for the back of the quilt. Stay tuned!