A designing question about quilt borders
I have been designing my own quilts for a short time now. As I design I make the decision concerning border widths, as well as whether there will be more than one - say a narrower inner border, in addition to a wider border.
The problem is that as I make the quilt, I sometimes have to change my widths because my original idea doesn't look 'quite right'.
Is there a formula for calculating how wide borders should be in relationship to the size of the middle section? I think I read somewhere that there was, but can't remember where I read it nor what the article said.
Of course, I know that formulas rules are broken per the designers desire, but think it would be helpful to have a starting point.
Thanks in advance.