Originally Posted by
Jane Quilter
I didn't realize that this was going to be a twin sized quilt. Any creative ideas to add boarders to enlarge it to a queen size quilt. add pinwheels? add a braid? add flying geese? add 2.5" charms? add 5" charms? It already has a 16 block on point for a boarder. I guess this is the one time I wish I had an EQ7 software program.
Jane, take a look at the upcoming BOW and notice that she uses an "alternate block" in the setting... puss in the corner. Something like that will enlarge your quilt. You can do as many or as few as you like. I just did that on a stack and whack quilt I made for donation. I only had 16 4 patches and that would have made too small a quilt. So I added in 12 alternate blocks and then 4 of plain fabric in the 4 corners. On pointe setting and setting triangles, and the size came out so much better.
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For a simpler alternate block, an hourglass in two colors works great too. You don't even have to set the blocks on pointe, they will just look like they are because of the hourglasses. Here is a Bonnie Hunter Chunky Churndash I made using hourglasses for alternate blocks. They make the block look like a diamond set on point, but it's really all an easy straight setting.
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