Making Progress on Frolic Border (post 9)

This week, I pulled out the components to make more half square triangles for the Frolic border. It's been about a month since I last worked on this project. I took some time to reacquaint myself with the process I had been following.

Components in the making of the zig zag border

When I know it is going to be some time before I get back to a project, I leave a trail of parts in process so I can "remember" what I was doing! I had few raspberry type fabrics so I cut more parts. I scrounged my leftover bits from the quilt and found a few more blue fabrics. 

At the end of my sewing session, I had pieced five more sections. I still have more to piece; but, less than when I started! Perhaps before the end of the month, I'll get another five six sections pieced. Then it will be time to see how many more pieces and sections I need to finish the border!

The reason I pieced a strip of four zig zags was I knew that I would use all of the HSTs I made at the start of the project. Since this project is bigger than the original design, I would need more HSTs. I used scrap fabrics which I've stitched into the project. Using up is great! I've pulled more strips from my "collection." I plan to sprinkle those in between the sections I've already pieced to retain a sort of randomness in the border.

Stitched sections

Gertie, my inner squirrel, wants to know what white inner border fabric I've selected. I haven't thought about the size or the fabric. She has been asking how I'm going to deal with the corners. She has ideas. I'm glad she has ideas. I told her that when I stitch enough sections to fit the outer edge, "we" will consider her ideas. She's excited. 

This was goal number two on my August list.