Originally Posted by
Rhonda Lee
I like to make bed size quilts. It seems like I'm always changing the patterns to make the quilt bigger. I don't do wall hangings but think there are some gorgeous ones out there. I've been working on a couple of different patterns from American Patchwork and McCall's Quilting. I don't have software to help me, so out comes graft paper and rulers. Sometimes just adding extra blocks work but other times to get the design to work it takes more figuring. I don't want to just add boarders although I have done that a few times. What do you do to get it the size you want?
I normally like to make bed size quilts .... any size from lap to queen really. When I want to make a quilt larger, out comes the graph paper and then I'm off searching quilt images to see if an idea pops out at me. If I can't find something that says "this belongs with this quilt" .... well then on goes some slab 'o borders.