Yikes. Mitred border in a horizontal stripe repeated every 6 inches.

[allhailtheaubergine]

I wish someone was holding my hand for this. I am a bit of a beginner. This is my second quilt. I have a striped fabric with the pattern of stripes repeated every 6 inches. I want the stripes to be at 90 degrees to the sides of the quilt, not running alongside. And I need to mitre the corners which I have never done before.

Oh, and I got the fabric abroad and haven't got enough to make mistakes.

Have cut 6 strips, paced around a bit, now I'm posting on Mumsnet. Any hints, tips or encouragement?!

[starfishmummy]

You can do it!!!!

Can you do a trial run with sone scrap, even just use some paper with stripes drawn on to practice with.

Good luck

[allhailtheaubergine]

I CAN do it. Yes.

I will grab a sneaky 20 minutes when I can hopefully be left alone to concentrate.

[dizzyday07]

There are plenty of tutorials on binding if you have a google - both written and video ones. Here is an example

[allhailtheaubergine]

Binding I can do!

It's mitring stripes I'm nervous of.

[HippyHippopotamus]

I found to be about as clear as it could get!

good luck! and yes, you CAN do it!

ps make sure you show us a photo once you've finished it

[allhailtheaubergine]

I'll watch that now.

I 1st need to make 4 long strips by joining strips at the right point in the pattern. Then I need to make the stripes meet up at the mitre. I forsee a lot of shuffling strips around and scratching my head.

[allhailtheaubergine]

Thank you, I meant to add.

[mollymole]

what starfishmummy said - practice with paper that you have drawn stripes on - you could even photocopy your fabric and use the photocopies, then when it is right pin these to the fabric

[HippyHippopotamus]

if you join the strips with a diagonal, you'll get less bulk in the binding but it might make it harder to match the pattern up

decisions decisions!