Need help from my fellow quilters.
 

I am almost finished with this top. It's from Eleanor Burns - called Gadabout. I want to make it queen sized. I have run out of 2 of the fabrics to add more rows of the pattern so I have to go with wider borders. Do you think this brown and red border will work ok with the rest of the quilt?

The brown picks up the brown in your blocks. I think it works!

Honestly not so much..the fish fabric is my reasoning. Quilt is so very nice, it would be a shame to add that border IMHO

Judy in Phx, AZ

sorry, but i have to agree. it might work for a narrow border, but i'd find something else for a wide, final border

What does it look like if you switch the grey/silver next to the red, then the brown? The two darker or richer tones together as you have it now, then the lighter tone doesn't work to my eye. I get that you need the wider two borders, just wanted to see if that looked better. I really like the quilt.You did such a great job on it.

I have the same feeling; I think the brown takes away from the beautiful quilt.

I like the brown and about the width you have showing.

Ignore my post. I realize my mistake. Sorry for that. However, I do like your quilt top.

I think the brown border on the outside looks great. The red and brown tie in nicely with the colors in your quilt. Really nice quilt! :thumbup:

A thin border of ivory or something like your ivory flowers would look good in-between the red and brown.

I like the brown border you can further pull it all together with the thread you quilt it with and the quilt design.

Totally agree with finding an ivory, then maybe the creamy color and the binding in the brown?

The brown works, but doesn't have a lot of "pizazz". I wonder if a lighter off white/ivory fabric that coordinates with the center triangles would work as the wide border? Your cute quilt is bright and cherry and the brown seems to tone it down to me. But it does work if you like it!

I like the brown--it repeats the brown in the quilt. I agree with Mrs Finch--a very narrow silver or cream between the red and brown would look great. I can't tell if the one color in the body of the quilt is cream or silver, but I think that color would look great. You did a very nice job on the quilt--I really like it.
Sue

I don't think the brown goes. Sorry, but the quilt is so beautiful, And I don't know what to tell you about fixing it. LOL

Looks good and the brown blends with your blocks very nicely. I really like the pattern.

If you need the added brown border for size, then it is going to be OK. Another suggestion might be to use the background as an inner border and have the red be the outside border. I usually try at least a dozen variation until I find what works for the quilt.

The brown is the right color but the wrong print or look. You don't have flowers in your quilt. Can you find something that goes better with the fabrics in the quilt. I really like the red and brown border, just not the print. The quilt is beautiful. This is my opinion only.

Beautiful quilt, but I would first add a lighter value and then the brown. I feel it would help your beautiful quilt "pop".

I think the brown is too busy..the quilt is all pattern material..adding the busy brown takes away from the quilt it's self I think..Maybe a solid color from one of the quilts colors would work better..if not solid a light color would be best with he dark one u already have..

I like it....the acid test is do YOU like it? If you like it, use it!

I think it's too dark of an brown and too floral to go with this top. I wonder how a lighter teal blue with tan prints go with it? Beautiful top though!

Nope, I don't like the brown. I know it's in the quilt, but the quilt top is very vibrant and the brown sort of brings it down, not cheerful like the inside. I would go with something different.

I agree with Dogwood. this appears to be a quilt made for a fishing enthusiast and a floral print is definitely the wrong way to go on this. Color works, print is wrong.

I agree with the brown and a narrow cream or lighter value. But is the gray part of it? I'm not sure if that works. Just saying. It's a beautiful top!

I like the red and the brown, especially the way the brown fades into te background and leaves the blocks as the stars
of the show.

My take, too. Beautiful top; love the fish!

The red border is OK, but I don't like the brown; although I'm not sure I can come up with an alternative.

I think a brown would work, but that one seems a bit busy. I would also put a thin 'breaker' border between the red and brown. Maybe bring the red in a bit, add a 1 1/2" creamish and then the wider brown. Or go real crazy and make the red thinner, do same size cream, same size the fish blue and then a wider (but less busy) brown. lots of possibilities.



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I would skip the brown, do a cream border the same width as your red, then another red of that same width. So the border would be red, cream, red. Love the top, just not that brown.

The brown works but the pattern doesn't. I would add a thin cfeam border between the red and brown.

I think it might look great with borders of the light colors that are in your blocks between the red and brown borders..maybe.. your red border is about the same width as the blocks so making the brown border narrower and adding either the white or yellow (or both) in smaller widths might work..what ever you choose I am sure it will be great!

I think it works great!!

I think it looks good with the brown.

Don't care for the brown. Looks like it was added to make it bigger rather than a planned color design of quilt. That's what my eyes see. My eye goes to the border rather than the beauty of the quilt.

It looks lovely and maybe the way to go.

I think it could work but needs a little break between the red and brown because the are somewhat similar tones. What about adding in the hint of the blue/turquoise in a narrow border between them? Then you could bind it in that also and bring out the center's "fun-ness." I think the brown next to the red as is kind of dulls it down, and it's too darling of a quilt to let that happen!

I would go with a lighter color, like the tan looking one in you center blocks , maybe a narrow blue like the fish, then a light brown or tan.

Just out of curiosity - which 2 fabrics did u run out of ??? and how much of the other fabrics do you still have left? Can you get more of those? You just might be able to piece a border next to the red? Then find a more suitable brown for outer border ?? just a thought ! Beautiful quilt top!