Originally Posted by mgrhs
here is the top so far....I would like to make it bigger. Please help me choose. Should I do a pieced scrappy look 6' border on each side or choose from one of the prints I used in the quilt or ?????. Right now the quilt is 58x72 and I'd like it to be at least 65x80.
Wainting for suggestions.........
I think I would add a few smaller plain borders encasing a border that has diamonds on point (to mimic your card trick block). I would make the diamonds scrappy, using the various fabrics from each block, and make the outside white. I would add either a single or double plain border to either side, repeated with fabric from inner blocks if possible. With that you should be able to make the borders big enough so that the quilt is 65x80. I don't know that I would do more than one section of the border as a pieced border or I think it would begin to compete for attention with the inner blocks instead of complimenting them.
~Tiffany