Originally Posted by
joe'smom
the third photo shows the partial quilt with new fabrics lined up along the bottom. So, what do you think you would do? Extend quilt with border, add new fabrics, or both, or neither?
New fabrics look great to me. If you want to be sure they blend in, add them to top AND bottom ... And if you really want to nerd out - you can (carefully) remove a line of stitching across the middle, add some new pieces there too. Then your "new" fabrics will be completely integrated into the overall design.
I had to do some thing like this with a jelly roll race. Even though I pulled random- for some reason all of my darkest fabrics ended up in one blob. Very unappealing. Needed to be fixed/ balanced.
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