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Cherry Fizz

 Assembly

Step 4

Sew 2 3/8"-wide borders to the quilt. Miter or butt, and trim the borders as needed.

Step 5

To make the pieced border, enlarge and then copy the border unit 76 times and the corner unit 4 times. Use paper-foundation piecing methods to make the units.

Step 6

Referring to the partial quilt assembly diagram, join 19 border units to make a pieced border being careful to orient them so the twisting pattern will appear. Make 4. Hint: Be careful to match the sewing lines between blocks so that the yellow and pink strips appear continuous. You may want to use a basting stitch on the first couple of seams between units until you are sure that you are stitching accurately.

Sew pieced borders to opposite sides. Sew a corner unit to the ends of the remaining pieced borders and sew to the top and bottom. Remove the paper foundations.

Step 7

Sew the long black borders to the quilt.

Using a ruler with a 45-degree mark aligned with the quilt's raw edge, trim the corner of the outer black borders at a 45-degree angle, maintaining the border width at the corner.

Repeat at each corner.

Step 8

Layer the quilt lining, batting, and top. Baste. Quilt in-the-ditch around the block patches and along the sashes. Stop quilting 1" from the outer edge.

Step 9

The quilt is finished with prairie points and has no binding. Press each prairie point fabric square in half diagonally wrong sides together, and in half again (Fig. 1). Pin the lining out of the way. Trim the batting even with the quilt top. Position 19 prairie points along one edge, raw edges even, so that all of the folds face the same direction. Overlap as needed. Repeat on all 4 sides. Add 2 prairie points along each angled corner (Fig. 2).

Step 10

Press the prairie points away from the quilt front. Working on the back of the quilt, trim and turn under the edges of the lining, and whipstitch by hand along the sewing line (Fig. 3). Add buttons where shown in the photographed quilt if desired.