Auditioning Borders - Opinions Welcome!
05-21-2013, 02:26 PM
#61
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Sounds gorgeous!!! Lovely work so far, and looks like what she requested too!
Originally Posted by ArtsyOne
I wasn't crazy about any of the displayed borders either, but couldn't put my finger on why. Thank you all so much for helping me to clarify. I've decided to try a border of the white background squiggle fabric and then bind it in the bright red of the little squares. The backing will be the white squiggle. Thank you! I feel so much better now.
05-21-2013, 02:28 PM
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Well, you have the bright,cheerful, graphic beautifully done. Love it. I don't really like any of the borders. Do you have enough of the light white fabric? Maybe that, then a thin pieced border using all the other fabric and bind in a color in the quilt. What ever you decide, it will be a great quilt.
05-21-2013, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by nananurse
I'm with QuiltnNan a red border.
05-21-2013, 07:45 PM
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I like the bottom one, but the top one would work if you use the striped one for the binding. Actually, if you have enough, that darker pink fabric with the orange flowers that occurs several times in the quilt would bring it all together nicely, and that would look great with the stripes as the binding.
05-22-2013, 01:23 PM
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I like the stripes. The pink seems too bright and it draws the color from the quilt blocks. The other two, to me, just contribute to the "busyness" and your eye doesn't know where to go. The stripe makes a very nice frame that highlights the quilt. That's what I think, anyway.
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