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Old 07-06-2011, 11:41 AM
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If you are looking to enlarge the quilt, what about playing with the placement of the blocks to make pinwheels and put plain white squares between the blocks of pinwheels maybe?
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Old 07-08-2011, 02:13 PM
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I've been playing around on eq7. The center isn't exactly like my HSTs, but close. What do y'all think of doing the borders like this?
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What fun shapes and colors; a learning quilt would be great. Thank you for sharing that concept; perfect.
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What fun shapes and colors; a learning quilt would be great. Thank you for sharing that concept; perfect.
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Old 07-08-2011, 06:55 PM
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you could find a fun print and mix in squares to make it bigger.
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Old 07-08-2011, 06:58 PM
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I don't have an answer, but my adult son, who doesn't like quilts, was looking over my shoulder and said "If you ever make me a quilt, I want one like that."

Neat, huh. He may very well get one...if I get a bit better at this quilting stuff. :)
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about a 2" inner border and then the larger one. I personally stick with solids to compliment the solids of the blocks.
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Old 07-09-2011, 08:17 AM
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Since you don't have primary hues of blues in the center I wouldn't use primary colors in your border. It washes out the center; try the same colors in muted shades and I think your quilt will much more pleasing to the eye.
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Old 07-09-2011, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by TanyaL
Since you don't have primary hues of blues in the center I wouldn't use primary colors in your border. It washes out the center; try the same colors in muted shades and I think your quilt will much more pleasing to the eye.
I agree with what you're saying. My actual colors do have some primary blues, but I will try some more muted colors to see how they look.
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