Need your advice for college graduation lap quilt gift
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Hi everyone, I'm making a lap quilt for a graduation gift for a college student and purple is her favorite color. She has a very carefree, fun attitude and she's my son's girlfriend for the last 3 years. She graduates on Memorial Day weekend.
The blocks are done and now I need to add sashing and borders. I thought a white 2" sashing around the blocks would give the quilt a clean fresh look. Then I was thinking of adding a 5" border using the dark purple from the block. Then a 5" border from the green from the block, then 5" border from the purple flower on white from the block. I was thinking about picking up the chocolate brown in the block for the binding. Do you think I should incorporate orange or some other color in the sashing or borders? What size borders or sashing would you use? This is a lap quilt so I need to add enough to get to the size of a lap quilt. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Sande |
What you've done is beautiful. Is there a reason that you don't add another row of blocks around rather than such wide borders? What size are the blocks?
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I like to mix the widths of boarders. Maybe put the green, a narrower 2" purple and then the floral. Then you could use the purple again for the binding.
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First your blocks are cute as heck love the color combo you have going.
Like the sashing, you are talking about adding 30 inches of borders that is a lot, can you make more squares instead? If not how about graduating your borders so instead of 3 borders all the same size do 2" 3" 4" and 5" or 2" 2" 6" 2" 2" I feel like breaking up the border widths will make it more like a design element and less like I'm just trying to make it bigger. Or a 3" plain border then a piano key border at 6" wide then another 3" All of your fabrics are so awesome any of them will be beautiful. |
I like the idea of a wide dark purple border--perhaps on the edge. Maybe add in a thin orange/gold/red border after the white sashing, then the green, then purple. Bind with purple/white floral. JMHO....
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I like the dark purple as the outer edge too. Also I would use the brown or orange as the cornerstones with the white sashing.
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The white sashing and large purple border would be pretty.
How are her washing skills? Most young people don't wash all the often and white can get grungy pretty fast. I might be tempted to sash in the dark purple and dark purple border for that reason. |
If it were me I would add more blocks because I love the look of them, do the white sashing and add a narrow inner border and one 5" border. Of course it is your quilt and what you want is more important than my opinion.
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Is that a disappearing 9 patch? You're fabrics are wonderful! I need more purples. Sorry i'm no help with the borders.
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Originally Posted by Carrie in PA
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Is that a disappearing 9 patch? You're fabrics are wonderful! I need more purples. Sorry i'm no help with the borders.
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