Help with border please
 

I can't believe it's November!!! I hope everyone is well!! My creativity seems to be asleep and this is my first bed size quilt, it's a king size and the blocks are 14 inches and the border will need to be 12 inches. With such a wide border I'm stumped...... this quilt was a special request, and they wanted just a simple log cabin, nothing fussy or fancy, just something in blue.

1: 3in inner border with a 6 in log cabin block followed by another 3in border.
2: same as above with 6 in star block in either the dark blue or scrappy (same as fabric in log cabins).
3: just plain mitered borders in a dark blue, med blue and white.

This is all I could think of and would appreciate any assistance and thoughts!

I have two quilts I needed a wide border on, so I went with a piano key. Breaks up that large area. Maybe a thin solid border, then piano key and another solid.

If you go with the simple triple border that would leave great space for some fancy quilting. Plus, the border will be the overhang. Not sure I would add another pattern into the border (like a star). It is very pretty.

Great colours for a very peaceful looking quilt.


You mentioned a 12" border .... is that the max? Or is that the minimum? and it could it be 14".

If so, what about another row of blocks ....
To me, a log cabin is one of the quilts that shows off perfectly without a border.

this was my first thought, too

Right, a large border can always be a nice place to showcase some fancy quilting. here are a couple of examples, all of these borders were 10" wide or wider. I think the blue and green one was over 12":
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I would try a red, then gray, then black border. If you have pieces of the fabric, lay them out and see how they look. I think this would really look good. You could use a 2", then a 4", then a 6". Add seam allowances. I don't think a log cabin needs to be quilted fancy.

With a 12 in border this will be a 108 in quilt so that will be the max my longarm can handle, and I do agree that I too think log cabins look great with no borders and that's what I'm going to do with my curved log cabin.

Wow, what beautiful quilts and beautiful quilting!!! It's certainly something to aspire to! I am going to bookmark this for inspiration!! Thank you!!!

As someone else suggested a piano key border to give it character or what about a ribbon border? Don't know if that's what its called but it looks like 2 ribbons crossing over each other continually in the various blues or maybe use the red and neutrals to bring them out.

I also think piano keys would be perfect but I think there should be a touch of red somewhere either in you border or the binding. It will bring out the red centers of you blocks.

I have no suggestion, but your quilt is lovely. Show us what you decide.

They said they like the blue, so I would go with 2 borders of 2 blues. A smaller inner border and a larger outer border. Because your logs change directions, this would be a nice frame to the cream colors. I personally would like to add either a 1" inner red or even a piping of red before the 2 blues. This is a very striking quilt - nice job.

Wow what beautiful quilting! Amazing!

Your quilt is beautiful! Sorry, I'm no help with borders, I struggle with that too!