Friendship Star Swap
 

I just finished this top today. It was from a swap from several years ago. Trying to get some of these blocks to match up was a trick. LOL. I didn't have anywhere flat to get a better pic, so it looks a little wonky but its really not. Trying to decide what to do about a border. Any ideas?? I don't have any fabric that matches any of the stars, but it looks like it needs something. I thought about keeping my eye out for material done in red,orange, yellow and purple..thats the colors of the stars if it doesn't come thru right in the pic.
Thanks,
Tammy D

Very nice! You're right, a nice rainbow type of border will look great.

wow! such a nice quilt. pretty colors too. great work. I hope you find just the right border. and welcome to the board. join a swap and meet new friends and have some fun.

Just beautiful!!

A very pretty quilt

Thanks all. Sorry I posted this here. I thought I was under the picture heading.

Pretty, maybe a double or triple border using a couple of the main colors. Maybe the interior border is 1 and 1/2 inches and the second color is 3 inches...just an idea.

Three borders--narrow 1 inch from red or orange then a wider border--2 and 1/2 or 3 out of yellow and then a 4 inch border our of dark blue. It is a beautiful quilt! froggyintexas

The ideas for the borders were great. Thanks!

that's pretty -- you could do whatever you want with borders -- it will just enhance it!

I would fold it up and hop on over to wherever you purchase fabric and start auditioning different. That's what I did with my butterfly quilt. I ended up with fabric I would never had bought! All the butterflys were from fabric of other quilts I have made. The border was way wilder than I usually get but it was perfect!
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Nice quilt! Take it along with you and see what the quilt shops may have for a fabric that would be a good border based on the colors of your stars.

Very cute quilt! I love friendship stars!!! So easy and fun to make and share!

AZ Jane has the right idea. Love the butterfly quilt too! You never know what a new fabric idea will do for a nice surprise at the end.

Have fun with it!

It's a beautiful quilt. I think it might be difficult finding fabric with all those colors, while I could be wrong. I would go with maybe a dark blue print, whatever you decide I'm sure it will be beautiful.

Nice job. Love the brite colors!!!!

Since I like my borders to "frame" my quilt, I would go for darker colors for the borders, using any widths you feel look good.

That is very cute...

Just use all the colors that are in your quilt

Very pretty & make sure you show us the finished quilt.

Love the butterfly quilt. !!! I'll take my top with me next time I go out. That's a great idea and probably the best way to find matching border fabric. Thanks to all for the suggestions.

You could also do a piano key border in one of the less dominant colors (like a dark blue or green) along with white/cream.

Nice job pulling it all together.

I'll be the odd quilter out and say -- unless you really want to increase the size of the finished quilt -- skip the border or just go with a narrow white border and then bind with your favorite of the brights used in the blocks. I feel like the quilt as it is now has a nice, understated and graphic feel and the focus is all on the blocks -- which is great, since the story this quilt tells is about friendship stars made by various quilters for a swap. To put a lot of additional color and pattern all around in a border would, to my eye, distract from that.

If you wanted an additional graphic feel a single randomly pieced border of the 4 star colors, using tone on tone blenders or batiks for example: if you want a 4 inch finished border, take a 4 1/2 inch wide red strip that is 10 inches long, then a 4 1/2 inch wide purple strip that is 6 inches long, sew the 2 together, now you have a longer border strip. Keep going until you have 4 borders. A braided border of the star colors would also look good.

Oh,. I'd want those bright stars to truly be the star, so I'd put about a 2" white border, then a pop of color from one of the stars in about a 3/4" border or flange, then about 3 1/2 or 4" white border

oh! Can you post a bigger picture of your avatar? It looks really neat, too.

Love it.....

Very pretty quilt. I would start looking for a purple fabric with bits of the other colors. You might also "float" a narrow inside border using your background fabric.

You did a great job with the layout.