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Exploding Sunbursts Tutorial: border

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How to make the wonky borders: First of all, cut two strips in half.  Now you have four strips which will correlate to the four sides of your block.  (Some of you have three border strips.  Just ignore the third one for now.) Lay the strips of opposite colors exactly on top of each other on top of your cutting mat, lined up neatly.  In this picture, the blue is pulled back so you can see that the green is exactly underneath it. Make cuts through your strips.  They can all be angled the same direction (like I did on my first quilt block), go in different directions; be close together or far apart; acutely or obliquely angled.  Just remember to make them different from each other so it doesn't look like you were trying to make them even.  Cut the two strips differently. Now separate the strips that you cut together, making two border lines.  The blue and green will be exactly alternating. They look like this when laid out...
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Exploding Pink & Purple Sunburts: Quilt block tutorial

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This is a tutorial for the quilt block that I have sent out for a quilting bee: Buttercup's Pink and Purple Exploding Sunbursts.  Here are directions for the packet that I have sent out: What is in your quilting bee packet? A bunch of strips of pink and purple fabric for the sunburst string piecing.  I chose a variety for each person, and they are small and large, thick and thin, long and short.  You are welcome to add whatever extra fabrics that you want from your own collection!  The theme is pink and purple.  Any pink or purple fabric works!  It doesn't even have to be quilting cotton, since it is put on a cotton backing, it just needs to be washable.  You can use as many or as few of the colors as you think are lovely. Dark blue and green strips for the wonky borders.  NOTE: there are 3 of these for most of you. You will only need two, in the contrasting color.  I thought the third would be helpful, but then when I actually made...
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