Ideas for a really unique border?
Any ideas for a unique border???
This is my One Block Wonder (aka kaleidoscope) quilt top which has lived most of its 12 years of existence in and out of a pizza box hoping not to always be a UFO!
For me, the hardest part of the whole quilt was arranging the darned blocks! Cutting and sewing was easy - trying to get them to at least look like they were playing together in some kind of arrangement... not so much!
When they were still only blocks i periodically felt guilty about them not being a quilt. When the guilt was too much, every once in a while i would throw the blocks on the design wall or on the floor and try to arrange them. They always ended up back in the box.
One New Years Eve when it was snowing and blowing so hard that i could barely find the house again while out walking the dogs, i decided to try arranging the blocks one more time. I already decided that i wasnt making any more blocks for this one because it was so hard to come up with a layout. I was resolved to just work with what i had - maybe making a smaller quilt or a wallhanging. Anyway, it must have been the most boring New Year’s Eve of my life (or maybe the 51st time to arrange the blocks was the charm) but i finally stumbled upon something i could live with! �� The blocks are now - finally - a quilt top!
I was wondering if anyone here might have any ideas for a really unique border for this quilt??? The customary border i have seen for this type of quilt consists of 6” borders on all four sides of the quilt of the “mother” yardage to showcase the source of the blocks. While I dont think there is anything wrong with that, i am really leaning toward coming up with a really special border for a quilt whose completion has eluded me for so long! I guess what i’m saying is that i am hoping for this quilt to go out with a bang instead of a whimper! ��
Just because i think it “should” i probably need to include enough of the “mother” fabric to be recognizable, but maybe not overdo it. In consideration of the need for some kind of spark to make things “pop” i shopped for additional accent yardage in most of the key colors. The quilt itself reads a little dark, but so did the original fabric i cut the blocks from.
Somewhere in my mind (a dangerous place) i have a lot of ideas right now but not much direction! Everything ranging from a wider border on just one side, to splitting the border on top/left and bottom/right into separate regions of something or other!
The borders could include some/all of the accent fabric, the “mother” fabric, and maybe small fussy cut blocks on point of the bear, eagle, etc. Any ideas???
The “mother” fabric is from the Moda National Park Series (Yosemite). My husband and sons are wildlife enthusiasts and it just seemed to be a good idea at the time. Hopefully they have all forgotten about it by now and until i can come up with something to get it outta the pizza box one last time!
You all are so creative and accomplished (and encouraging) i was hoping maybe you wouldnt mind if i bounced this off of you... All of the dark blocks made it really hard to arrange but i did the best i could. I do like making the blocks, but next time im going with the psychedelic talking flowers and be done with it!!!
Thank you in advance for any suggestions that come to mind ��
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