Border help
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#14
Your border example in the last picture (set aside from the pieced border) is the order that I think is best -- green, burgandy, the print. I would use the border strips in that order and eliminate the pieced border completely. Beautiful star!
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Thanks for all the advice! The problem is that I want to make this quilt much bigger than the original pattern. The quilt is broken down like this- the finished center is 18" putting it together with the feather star border makes that section 33" after adding 3 border the finished size of the quilt is 55". I want to make it 90". So
I added a 4" border to the feathered star section, 2- 1" borders, 2" sawtooth border, 2- 1" border, final border in black floral print with be ? (probably 12-15" border).
below is the link to this book "Scalling Down" The pic on the cover is the center that I made but I changed the pieced border. This is a good book because it gives you 12 different centers and 12 different borders.
http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Patter...own+quilt+book
I added a 4" border to the feathered star section, 2- 1" borders, 2" sawtooth border, 2- 1" border, final border in black floral print with be ? (probably 12-15" border).
below is the link to this book "Scalling Down" The pic on the cover is the center that I made but I changed the pieced border. This is a good book because it gives you 12 different centers and 12 different borders.
http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Patter...own+quilt+book
#20
Count me in on the suggestion to remove the pieced border but I think a strip of white or a solid dark to replace it might make the star really stand out...then something a bit bold for the binding that pulls all the colors together?
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