Help! Border ideas!
 

I'm making a quilt for my sister as a wedding present so I want it to be great. I'm doing pretty simple squares and connecting them with <gs id="9e9ede27-1ff3-4a68-b69c-e50600b7922a" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0f9627eb-15e9-4f45-80dc-482a5ded36cb" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">crochetting</gs>. I'm a bit short of the fabric I need, it should be 8x10 blocks and it's only 7x9. They don't have the purple fabric available anymore. I thought of:
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I could really use some help/ideas. Everything I find online about borders is for straight quilts, nothing that would work right with the <gs id="3aab7522-6a52-40a1-bb1d-37b327394fcc" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4aad3938-8f69-48c2-8807-81e2856ba8f2" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">crochetting</gs> aspect.

Welcome to the board! Can you post a picture? That would make it easier to visualize border ideas. I have not seen a quilt with crochetting, but it sounds great. Is it purple and white? (my favorite color combination...)

Without a picture, a few ideas come to mind...maybe one of them might help? Does it really need to be larger? Maybe 7 x 9 is big enough? Lay the quilt out and "audition" white fabric as the border. Google quilts with crochetting and see what you find.

Obviously I can't really help, but maybe someone else here can. I have only been quilting 4 years, and I have a lot to learn yet.

Dina

Welcome to the Board!

Like Dina said, a picture would help. Without seeing it, we're only guessing. but, here's my guess.

Can you put a 1" frame around each block with coordinating fabric?

My suggestion would be to add sashing in-between the blocks. Maybe you could even crochet around them. Or use a coordinating fabric for a wider border all around. Like the others said, a picture would help generate more ideas. I hope one of the ideas suggested to you will help.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]505052[/ATTACH] Sorry, I tried to post it with a picture, but it wouldn't let me. I cropped it here. You can't tell the colors well here, it's purple and white fabric (with patterns) and dark green yarn crocheting.

It's pretty! You apparently have a certain size in mind. Maybe you could accept the size it is and consider it a lap throw instead of a bed quilt?

If you must have a border, how about a print fabric that has the purple, white and green? It might be hard to find the right fabric, but if you could it would look nice.

Oh, it is really pretty! Are you sure you can't find that purple fabric? Well, I asked because I thought I had some, but mine is a bit different. I'll attach a picture anyway, in case either could help at all.

Maybe you could find a similar fabric to what you have....and I think your purple is darker than mine...but if you just found something about the same color and then made blocks out of it and your white, then you could have the outer blocks be out of them, all the way around. So you would end up with the 8 x 10 block arrangement you wanted. It might look good...sort of a border, but still with white blocks?

Anyway, that is my idea. Or Audrey's idea of one fabric with green and purple and white is a good one too.

Pretty quilt though! Good luck with what you decide.

Dina

Oh, that's it on the right! It just looks dark in my picture. They didn't have it anymore at Joann's, I bought it last December.

Are you sure that is it? If so, PM me your address and I will mail you some (Do not put your address or your email address on this site). How much do you need?

Dina

Just in case you haven't figured it out, to PM me, just click on my name and it will be one of the choices that comes up...

Dina