Need your advice for college graduation lap quilt gift
Hi everyone, I'm making a lap quilt for a graduation gift for a college student and purple is her favorite color. She has a very carefree, fun attitude and she's my son's girlfriend for the last 3 years. She graduates on Memorial Day weekend.
The blocks are done and now I need to add sashing and borders. I thought a white 2" sashing around the blocks would give the quilt a clean fresh look. Then I was thinking of adding a 5" border using the dark purple from the block. Then a 5" border from the green from the block, then 5" border from the purple flower on white from the block. I was thinking about picking up the chocolate brown in the block for the binding.
Do you think I should incorporate orange or some other color in the sashing or borders? What size borders or sashing would you use? This is a lap quilt so I need to add enough to get to the size of a lap quilt. Your advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Sande