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Stay at Home Round Robin Border 5

Today is my day to share the Stay at Home Round Robin Border 5. Have you been sewing along with us? It’s been such fun to see all the variations as our quilts grow with each border. Here’s the list of the borders we’ve added so far: 

  • Border 1 – Piano Keys
  • Border 2 – Plus Block
  • Border 3 – Flying Geese
  • Border 4 – Checkerboard

Are you ready for today’s border? Drumroll, please . . . Border 5 is Wonky Stars! If you’ve followed my blog long enough, you won’t be surprised that I chose something wonky, a little bit of a nod to my love of improv. 

To make my Wonky Stars, I used this tutorial from Aunt Em’s Quilts. If you have a different method you prefer, go ahead and use that one. 

Some of you may not wish to make Wonky Stars, and that’s okay. Just make a star border of your choice. BUT . . .

Just try making one wonky star for me, huh? I really think you will enjoy making them, and they are so darn cute! 

The concept of the wonky star is pretty simple. It’s a basic 9-patch unit, with star points added. All of your squares should be cut to the same size. I made two sizes of stars for my border. The smaller one finished at 3 inches, so my squares were all cut at 1-1/2 inches. 

For one border strip, I knew I needed four 3-inch blocks, which meant that I needed 16 squares for the star points. I gathered those squares, and sewed the first star points on one side, and then the other side, chain piecing them. I found it made the construction of the units a bit quicker. 

Sewing the star points on one side of my Wonky Stars - piecefulthoughts.com

I decided that I wanted my stars to dance across the border, so I added a strip of background fabric to each small star. 

Background strip added to star to make them dance across border - piecefulthoughts.com

The larger stars finish at 4-1/2 inches, and I set them at the four corners and in roughly the middle of each border. 

My two sizes of wonky stars - piecefulthoughts.com

I laid out my border, alternating the background strip up or down on the small stars so they appear to dance. 

Alternating the small stars so they dance - piecefulthoughts.com

And now my Stay at Home Round Robin Border 5 is complete! 

Stay at Home Round Robin Border 5 on my quilt - piecefulthoughts.com

At this point, my quilt measures 44 inches wide, which is just about the limit for my quilt hanger. The two remaining borders will be added to the top and bottom of my quilt. 

Don’t forget to visit the other Stay at Home Round Robin hosts to see their star borders (hover over their blog name and click). 

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Enjoy creating your Stay at Home Round Robin Border 5 this week! 

Wendy

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