If you are making a border of Diagonal Gobelin you end up with two corners where the stitches wrap around the corner nicely and two corners where the stitches go across the border. I’m not fond of the look. My usual way to avoid this is to have one pair of sides go edge to edge and to have the other pair stop before the through sides.
The border pictured above is what I call the Log Cabin Border. It’s a variation of the through border, but the overlaps are based on the way the “logs” overlap in a log cabin quilt. Because there is no mitering, both Straight and Diagonal Gobelin can be used. With these corners, uneven borders such as the ones in Pippin’s designs are not a problem.
Instead of pairs overlapping, the overlaps proceed around the border. Each side of the border goes through to one edge, overlapping the border on the next side. The diagram below shows one side of this kind of border.
I love the way this border turned out. It was so easy to do and it looks so cool.
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