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Cornerstones for Your Quilt
Secrets for Sewing Perfect Cornerstones
Using the foolproof techniques in this quilting resource, your cornerstones and borders will be perfect - the seams will match and your quilt will lay flat every time you create a quilt.
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Cornerstones are squares or patches that are used in the corners between blocks or in the borders of quilts.
The first time I used a cornerstone in a quilt was because I ran out of fabric and needed something to fill in the space. It turned out that the cornerstone was the amount of fabric I needed and could finish the quilt.
The next time was when I was using Flying Geese as the border. The question arose about what to do in the corner. Instead of running the Geese into each corner, I decided to sew a square patch in the corner.
Your cornerstones can be simple squares of fabric or patches. In the pictures of the quilts below you will see a variety of cornerstones I have used and a brief description of why each was used.
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The easiest cornerstones are simple squares.
In this quilt, I used painted fabric squares in each corner to avoid having the Flying Geese run into the corners. |
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The border of this quilt is fairly wide, so I decided to use 4 small blocks in the corner.
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Close-up of the blocks in the cornerstone of the above quilt. |
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There are several cornerstones in this quilt.
In the corners of the Flying Geese surrounding the bears, I have used small pieced trees. |
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This is the block used as a cornerstone in the bear quilt above.
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Another interesting effect is to sew an inside narrow border that surrounds the center of the quilt top. Then use cornerstones in your outside border. |
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I ran out of the blue fabric for the border, and used the white squares in the cornerstones in order to finish the quilt. |
Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
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