A couple of weeks ago a friend told me I was brave for making the Pink block before I had purchased the album..Not brave I replied, I now what size the albums are, the first border will be an inch wide and the second border will be as wide as it needs to be…
Not brave, more like st****, I didn’t now what size the albums were, I thought that they where 14 inches square, It IS 14 inches wide but only 12.75 inches high which means that the top and bottom borders would be to narrow…A change of plan needed…what it I make the first border a 1/4 wide, a shame not to show off what a beautiful fabric that I have and the side borders will be much wider than the top and bottom borders…If I move the block off centre so that the right side border is the same as the top and bottom and make the pink border on the left the same, I can then use the first pink border fabric for the spine where the pattern in the fabric will be shown off and I think the the darker spine will give it a nice old fashion photo album look, that will work but…
Narrow borders are hard to get even at the best of times, almost impossible with slippery fabric, I have been procrastinating about stitching the borders on because both the border fabrics are slippery…light bulb moment, I used light weight iron on interfacing to stabalize the fabrics and the borders are stitched on.
Next problem…the pink fabric was a dress, bought at a thrift shop because it was the right colour for this album…Unfortunatly it was also the right colour for a cartoon character costum that my nephew wanted, we made the costume and now I don’t have enough fabric and have been joining smaller pieces together to make the lining and inside flaps.
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