it needs something....suggestions?
01-15-2012, 03:37 PM
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01-15-2012, 08:51 PM
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How about piecing together all your different fabrics and use that to make a narrow flange or a skinny piping. Put it right next to the binding, which I'd think would be black. That will pull those colors out to the edge and make a nice frame for the quilt, with the black binding.
01-15-2012, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by coldquilter
I think that a piano keys border with the batiks would look just great. Any way to get some of that colored out to the outside would help bring the black kind of into the quilt rather than being the "outside". Looks great though.
01-16-2012, 06:13 AM
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How about quilting it with variegated threads of some of those beautiful brilliant colors? I am thinking of the quilting on the black just to tie in the colors and to create a continuous thought of color.
01-16-2012, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by coldquilter
I think that a piano keys border with the batiks would look just great. Any way to get some of that colored out to the outside would help bring the black kind of into the quilt rather than being the "outside". Looks great though.
01-16-2012, 10:07 PM
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To keep it quick, how about after trimming the current black border to the size of the sashing, then add miniatures of the batik blocks, perhaps 1/4 or 1/8 size in matching and coordinating batiks, end to end in a strip around the outside. Bind in black or border again in black, depending on the size quilt you want to end up with.
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