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Quilt Tip: Piano Keys Border with Easy Miter Corners

8/19/2024

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If you love the look of a piano keys border like I do, you will love this easy miter corner technique to go with it.  If you are a Virtual Quilters member, you might recognise this heart block.  The pattern was our July Block Lotto.  I wanted to make a small wall quilt, and use the scraps from making the blocks to add a piano keys border.
​  --Ann

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Here are the steps I used
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To keep the math simple, I cut strips 1-1/2 inches wide, which result in 1 in wide finished. I decided to make the piano keys 3-1/2 inches long to finish at 3 inches. You can obviously choose what you want.
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I make long strips the exact length of each side of the small quilt - corner to corner. Then I made 2 square blocks for each corner (total 8) that were 3-1/2 inch x 3-1/2 inches.

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I trimmed the corner squares so that they were 3-1/2 inches square, the same width as the long piano key strip on each side.
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Make Half Square Triangles for the corners: Pin 2 of the 3-1/2 squares, right side together with the seams in the same direction. Draw a diagonal line.

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Stitch from corner to corner on top of the drawn line.
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Peek inside to be sure things lined up as you wanted. Trim the excess off 1/4 inch from the seam. (Yes, this is waste or can be sewn as another Half Square Triangle & saved for something else)

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The Half Square Triangle you made will be pieced into the corner. Sew the long side strip on first, matching even with the corner of the quilt. The sew the Half Square Triangle unit to the top border strip. PS- I did both sides at the same time.
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Sew together ends up with a perfect miter corner, and the piano keys seams hides the method of sewing things together.

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Do the same procedure at the two bottom corners to finish.
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All done, and read to do the quilting.
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