Need advice/suggestions on WIP Baby Quilt
 

I am making this baby quilt for one of my instructors at school that is due in December. I whipped this up this past weekend using a charm pack from the Terrain collection by Moda. Now my delimma: I have it sandwiched and pinned and I have already started quilting the snowballs. For some reason, I didn't measure the quilt top before I got this far. I measured the quilt top and it is only 27" X 27"! I don't feel this is big enough for the baby. What I need to know is has anyone started the quilting process and then added borders around the edges? The batting and backing are large enough that I can add another 2 1/2" border around all 4 sides without a problem. My second question is do I add another white border or do I add a border of the backing fabric? If I add another border of white, do I add another flange made out of the backing fabric? I am planning on using the same backing fabric for the binding too. HELP!!!

If the backing and batting is large enough, I'd do the borders QAYG.

It looks like the last border is white so I would add a coloured border. Do you have anymore of the bright pink? A border of that would be nice unless it will clash with the binding you have chosen. I would add the border now even though you have started to quilt it....unless it is mounted on a longarm machine. In that case I would add the border after the quilting is finished QAYG style. Very preety!

A coloured border would work well. Lovely backing!

I have had to do this once in the past and it worked fine I added an extra border before quilting - just be careful you don't catch the wadding - managed that as well!!!!!!

I've never done it but I'd try it...shouldn't be that hard to sew borders on the way it looks...looks very nice

I'd say sure go for another border, since you have enough batting & backing. I agree Quilt as yiu go would be the easiest. If you have more pink or even pull another color from one of the blocks. Sounds very do-able. Good luck and be sure to post pictures when youre done

I love that fabric line -- such nice colors.

A couple of ideas. You could go with it as-is and make it as a wallhanging -- just add a sleeve. It's a lovely colorful addition for any nursery. Lots of new moms get a ton of blankets and quilts--more than they can use since they're not really recommended for use in a crib.

If you really want to add a border, can you use the remaining charms? You should have at least 15 more. You could buy a second charm pack, slice them and make a piano key border, which I think would be more pleasing overall than either the pink or white repeated.

RST

I would simply at a border of color, either the pink or even a green would look nice. Good job on the quilt so far.

the quilt is bright and cheerful. i agree with the others that a colored border would be best.

I would add another border, but unless you know that the baby is a girl I would choose a green border over the pink.

If you wanted to make it even larger yet, you can attach more batting with a zig-zag stitch,
then add the borders to size you want.

btw - It's VERY PRETTY!! :)

Beautiful quilt........I agree, you could add a border using QAYG method.

I like the idea of a keyboard boarder like RST suggested. If you can't find another charm pack any color would be nice that goes with the colored boarder already used would work.

I agree -- I like my baby quilts at least 36" square and I prefer 36x45 or 45" square.

Adding another border will work. What I would do is baste strips of batting around the outside of the existing batting, just butting the edges together and doing a big loopy whip stitch to hold the strips to the batting -- you want to keep the batting flat when you do this. Add enough batting to get to the size you want plus about 2" extra. If your backing is not wide enough, add a border on the back as well as on the top -- just make sure the seams on the back do not match the seams on the front (it gets too bulky if they match).

Beautiful jazzy baby quilt. A border would be great, just do a lot of pinning and sew slowly with frequent checking to keep the rest of the quilt from being caught in the seam.

I think you can do this, and yes, I would do a border of the backing fabric. Cheers, K