{"id":69847,"date":"2026-03-02T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=69847"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:14:53","slug":"lupine-border-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/lupine-border-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupine Border Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I chunked the Lupine quilt top<\/a>, then sewed the spacer border on. The next step was the Flying Geese border.<\/p>\n

Option 1:<\/p>\n

\"Recommended<\/a>
Recommended Lupine border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The directions were to assemble two Flying Geese so it looks like the above. The look was ok, but didn’t grab my attention.<\/p>\n

Option 2:<\/p>\n

\"Zigzag<\/a>
Zigzag Lupine border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saw a zigzag border that someone made and tried that with my fabrics. This option looked more cohesive to me. <\/p>\n

Option 3:<\/p>\n

\"Alternating<\/a>
Alternating chevrons Lupine border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just to see if another configuration would be better, I tried alternating chevrons. This wasn’t terrible and created a lot of movement, but I thought it was a little confusing for the viewer.<\/p>\n

I went for option 2 and started sewing long rows of Flying Geese together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I chunked the Lupine quilt top, then sewed the spacer border on. The next step was the Flying Geese border. Option 1: The directions were to assemble two Flying Geese so it looks like the above. The look was ok, but didn’t grab my attention. Option 2: I saw a zigzag border that someone made … Continue reading “Lupine Border Decisions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[543,72,559,270,331,252],"class_list":["post-69847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-group-project","tag-lupine-laughter-mystery-quilt","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69880,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69847\/revisions\/69880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}