Working with Category
3 Blocks:
All other blocks. Each border is different in
the amount of work needed to get any sense of symmetry.
Block
selected from QP Block Library to represent this category: Hummingbird block
1. In the Block menu select Browse.
2. In
the file browser select the Quilt Pro 3 folder. (See Figure 1.)
3. In the Quilt Pro 3 folder double click the Blocks folder.
(See Figure 2.)
4. In the Blocks folder
scroll down to the Pieced Animals folder and double click on it. (See Figure
20.)
Figure 20 Select Hummingbird block from Browser
5. In the Pieced Animals folder
select the Hummingbird and click on 
.
Note: We will again use a one inch
length and width to create our border so let's resize the Hummingbird Block.
6.
To open the Resize dialogue box, go to the Effects menu and select Resize
To.
7. Change the Width and Height
to 1.00 and select 
.
8. Go to the top menu bar and select Edit, from the menu
select Copy.
9. Go to the
top menu bar and select Border, from the menu select Design. The
Border Length/ Width dialogue box opens.
10.
Fill in as shown in Figure 7 and select .
The border boundary appears in the workspace as shown in Figure 8.
11. In the Edit menu select Paste and the Hummingbird
block appears in the workspace with the border boundary.
Note: Since it is already selected, let's
move the Hummingbird block into the vertical repeat.
12. Go to the top menu bar and select Edit from the menu select
Duplicate. Move the duplicate Hummingbird Block to the horizontal repeat
section of the border, by clicking on the selected block and dragging. (See Figure
22.)
13. Create a corner block for the
border. Select or draw anything you wish. (See Figure 23 for my selection.)
Save the Humming Bird Border
1.
Go to the top menu bar and select Border, from the menu select Save
As. The Border Save As dialogue box appears.
2. Find the Borders folder. (See Figure 24.)
Figure 24 Border Save As dialogue
box. 3. Type Hummingbird Border
and click 
.
Using
Newly Created Borders in a Quilt
Now you have
a border from each Category saved in the border library. Make a blank quilt to
experiment with each type.
Create and Save a Blank Quilt
1. Go to the top menu bar and select Layout, from
the menu select Quilt.
2. Complete the Block tab as shown
in Figure 25.
Figure 25 Blocks Tab dialogue box.
3. Complete the Borders Tab dialogue
box as shown in Figure 26.
Figure 26 Borders Tab dialogue box.
4.
In the Quilt Lay
out
Settings dialogue box, select the Sashes Tab.
5.
In the Sash options, select 
.
6. To layout the blank quilt, select
(See Figure 27.)
7. Go to the File Menu and select
Save As. The Save Project dialogue box opens.
Figure
28 Project Save As dialogue box
8. Type
Category blocks blank quilt. Select .
Experiment
With Newly Created Borders
You now have all three borders designed and
saved and you have a sample quilt layout to display and modify the borders.
Since
this has been a very long session I am going to start this part of the exercise
as if we are opening the program from the closed status.
Category 1
Border example
1. Open Quilt-Pro
2. Go to the top
menu bar and select File, from the menu select Open. The Project
Open dialogue box appears.
Figure
29 Project open dialogue box
3. Select
the Category blocks blank quilt. (See Figure 29.) The example will open
in a new screen.
4.
To open the right click menu associated with the border:
PC
Users: Right click on any border block space.
Mac
Users: Hold down the Ctrl Key and
click on any border block space.
- In the right click menu select
Browse Borders. The File Browser opens to the Border folder.
5.
Scroll down until you find the Double T #2. Select, drag and drop the border
block into any border space.
6. Border fitting dialogue box
appears. Verify horizontal and vertical specific count buttons are selected with
a specific count of 8. NOTE: An eight inch quilt with 1 inch repeat makes
for a specific count of 8.
7.
To exit the Border Fitting dialogue box, click OK. Then close
the File Browser. Eight blocks will appear on each side of the quilt border plus
one in each corner. The border fits perfectly with no distortion. (See Figure
30.)
Figure 30. Category 1 Border
Category 2
Border example
1. Repeat the previous exercise, this time opening the
Four Patch border block. (See Figure 31.)
Figure
31. Category 1 Border
Again note that two opposing sides are identical.
Also that the identical sides are vertical in the top and bottom borders of the
quilt and horizontal in the side borders of the quilt.
Category
3 example.
1. Repeat the previous exercise for Catagory 1 block,
this time opening the Hummingbird. (See Figure 32.)
Figure 32. Category 3 example.
In the case of Category 1 blocks
no effort was required to have complete symmetry. In the case of Category 2 blocks
little effort was required to obtain a little symmetry. We are now going to find
that much effort is sometimes required to obtain any sense of symmetry in Category
3 blocks. One way to obtain symmetry with Figure 32 is to rotate some border blocks.
My personal changes are shown in Figure 33.
Alternate Category
3 example.
Changes to be made to Figure 32.
Figure 33.
One solution to symmetry
in the border.
1.
To begin the transformation of the border, open the right click menu associated
with the border and deselect the Affect All command.
PC
Users: Right click on any border block space.
Mac
Users: Hold down the Ctrl Key and
click on any border block space.
- If the Affect All has a check
mark by it, click on Affect All to remove it.
2. Then prepare
to rotate the blocks in the border. Do this by holding down the Shift Key
and selecting (clicking on) the four left Hummingbird blocks in the bottom
border.
3. Click 
Horizontal Flip in the Toolbar.
4. Then deselect the blocks
by clicking on a blank area of the screen.
5. Hold down the Shift
Key and select (click on) the entire top border.
6. Click
Vertical Flip in the Toolbar.
7. Then deselect the blocks
by clicking on a blank area of the screen.
8. Hold down the Shift
Key and select (click on) the four left Hummingbird blocks in the top border.
9. Click
Horizontal Flip in the Toolbar.
10. Refer to Figure 33 to see what
the border should look like.
3 Part Border Series by Frank Smith
Part 1: Fitting Pieced Borders
Part 2: Creating a Pieced Border
Part 3: Working with problem border blocks to make them symmetrical and other
tricks
Store
Block
selected from Quilt-Pro Block Library to represent Category 1:
.
Open Quilt Pro.
in the Toolbar.
.
(See Figure 4.)
Block
selected from QP Block Library to represent this category:
this
in a cursory manner so we can continue on with the exercise. See Figure 17. Instead
of you drawing this block I would recommend you just draw a solid color square
to fill the space. I would use a solid block also except I think it will be easier
for you to see with a patchwork block.
8.
In the Edit menu select Duplicate. 
