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Originally Posted by Prism99
I'm still struggling with this border thing, though. Framing the guitar is a great idea. Won't the part we cut off be too small to fit back on once there is a border inserted? Am I picturing too wide a border? I see either a very narrow (1/4") border and the outer section hiding shortcomings in the binding, or a wider border with black squared on the outer corners.
Umm, you're right, I hadn't thought of that.
I just cut up a notecard to see how it might work out. You could wait until the background is done to audition some black strips to see what width of black border would look best and in what placement. The directions below are for what I was thinking of -- a 2-inch black border 3 inches in from the edges of the quilt.
Cut off 3 inches of fractured background from the short sides of the quilt first, then the long sides. Seam the black strips to the long edges of the quilt first, then the short edges. That would make a complete black border. The long fractured strips you cut off are still the right length to add to the long ends. The short ends would need to have some fabric added but, since it's a fractured background anyway, you could just randomly add some additional fractured fabric to the short strips until they are long enough. Alternatively, you could create fractured cornerstones to add on to the short strips, or just cut four cornerstones from an interesting fabric to "ground" the quilt.
I'd wait and see if it looked better with a black binding or a psychedlic fabric binding. (I'm thinking the psychedelic binding so the quilt just wanders off into space.....)
Oh, and when making the fractured fabric, I'd try to keep a lot of the pieces fairly large. This would make the background go together faster.