Looking for suggestions? To finish this quilt top
#1
Looking for suggestions? To finish this quilt top
This partial quilt top is a WIP (work in progress) from a mystery quilt I'm participating in.
The original pattern calls for a border (6 1/2 inches) between the corners stones, in a colour that wasn't already used in the top. This went against my personal sense of order .
So, as I do not have enough of any of the featured fabrics to make a full 6 1/2 inch border, I am looking for ideas what to do......
My thoughts and those of a few friends are:
-Strip set of the component colours (like a rail?)
-Alternate borders with whichever colour I have enough of, i.e. one blue, one orange, one lime green....
-Piano key border of all the fabrics
I am not sure if something as linear as the rail or piano key would look like it belonged, when so much of the existing top is triangular or square.
BTW, this will be the final border.
Any and all ideas welcomed!
The original pattern calls for a border (6 1/2 inches) between the corners stones, in a colour that wasn't already used in the top. This went against my personal sense of order .
So, as I do not have enough of any of the featured fabrics to make a full 6 1/2 inch border, I am looking for ideas what to do......
My thoughts and those of a few friends are:
-Strip set of the component colours (like a rail?)
-Alternate borders with whichever colour I have enough of, i.e. one blue, one orange, one lime green....
-Piano key border of all the fabrics
I am not sure if something as linear as the rail or piano key would look like it belonged, when so much of the existing top is triangular or square.
BTW, this will be the final border.
Any and all ideas welcomed!
#5
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,538
How about a 6 1/2 inch border using the white as a background and the staggered flying geese in the colours from the other blocks? I am not sure if they are called staggered but the flying geese that make a undulating path by varying the length of the background fabric. Neat WIP!
#8
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Posts: 8,139
My suggestion is to find a dark blue that matches or comes close to the dark blue in the blocks. It would set off the quilt nicely. The piano keys might be too much and overpower the beauty of the quilt center.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
J Miller
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
107
07-22-2018 05:19 PM
Julie in NM
Pictures
22
09-11-2011 07:03 AM
shaverg
Pictures
34
11-22-2009 01:30 PM