Here is a corner being mitred.
This picture shows a corner mitred.
For the border, cut a plain strip of unbleached calico, 2 inches wide and about 37 inches in length. On each side of this strip tack down ¼ inch. Now, leaving about 2 inches, start sewing on the border at one corner of the quilt, on the wrong side, with neat oversewing stitches. When you come to a corner you must mitre it. From the corner measure along your border twice the width of the border, i.e., 3 inches. Mark with a pin or thread. Now pleat your border strip so that the pin comes just on the corner. If you have done this quite neatly and evenly, your corner will be quite square. On the wrong side you will have a crease across the diagonal of the border. Stitch along this firmly with run and back-stitch. Then cut away just beyond the stitches, and oversew the raw edges to keep from fraying. When you come to the corner from which you started, you must join the two ends of the border, and this is done just the same as the other corners, by first creasing and then stitching on the diagonal.
The Fancy Stitch.
How to work the fancy stitch round the border.
On the quilt in the picture a little fancy stitch has been worked in coloured “Star Sylko,” and this is a great improvement. This is worked from left to right, with first a little horizontal stitch then a long slanting stitch, and below the slanting stitch another horizontal stitch. Bring your needle up from the wrong side. Take a few threads of material, bringing the needle out on a line with the first place at which you brought it up, but a little to the right of it. Bring it out under the stitch just made, and carry it down in a slanting direction and make another little horizontal stitch in the same way, this time, however, keeping your needle above the stitch. Then up again, and so on. The little pictures will make this stitch clear. When you have gone all round the border, you can take out all your tacking stitches and pull the paper away from the little squares.