Piano Key Border Tutorial

You can use a square of fabric in the corners or miter the corners.
Piano key border tutorial. Leave an inch or two unsewn to the quilt at the bottom. When i do a piano key i have the borders chase each other. Feb 3 2018 my sister and i have combined to make this piano key border such as the one she put on her music quilt. Make it even with the top have extra piano keys the width of your border.
Sort of log cabin style. A piano keys border is one of the easiest of patched borders to make and uses up all those left overs from your quilt. When i make piano key borders i try to find the shortest strip and cut the others that size. I use different widths separated also.
She gives tips for avoiding wavy or curved strip sets. Here you can learn how to strip piece. Piano key borders can be all scrappy or they can repeat fabrics as would happen when using strip sets to make the piecing quicker. Download free pattern from robert kaufman fabrics here.
Sara also talks about how to determine the number of strips needed to complete the length of the border being made for a quilt. Lessons in creativity jenny kae parks runtime 10 min one of the fastest and easiest ways to make a piano key quilt border is to first create a strip set and subcut that strip set into sections of the required length. I press the seams open for those.