More Word Play Fun and Some Free Pieced Stars

Tonya has created a monster.  I have been having so much fun with my Word Play Quilts book.  There was no question in my mind that I would add some free pieced letters and stars to the border of my Quilts of Valor project.

I had a dilemma when joining two of the border pieces together.  I wanted the stars to wrap around the corner but did not want a big space between each star.  I decided to join the two sides together on an angle.  I sewed each navy border to the white inner border until I reached 1/4" from each edge. I left enough fabric on each end so the fabric would extend out beyond the edge of the quilt. Then I ironed the sides until each laid flat.  At the intersection of the borders I folded one the navy blue fabric under on an angle making sure to keep the fold straight.  I pressed a strong crease in the top fabric (you can see this in the over exposed photo above).  Then I applied painters tape across this crease to hold the two borders together.  I opened the fold up from the wrong side of the quilt and used the crease as my stitching line.  Once this seam was completed I checked to make sure all the fabrics laid flat and then squared up this corner.