Originally Posted by
wildyard
I am sewing together this controlled scrappy quilt for my niece. I need a border to finish it off, and was planning one of these two stripe/plaid fabrics.
Now I am concerned they are too busy and wondering if I should just go for a tone on tone red as the border and binding; or the red border and stripe binding?
Thoughts about this? Thanks in advance!!
I'd go with a thin white border and use one of the two fabrics for your binding. White would keep the body of the quilt as the focus and would not limit the quilt to any one color accent.