I am new to quilting. I think borders should compliment or set off the quilt. This quilt is beautiful. The wonky border destroys it and now takes the focus away from the center and adding more wonky borders will make it worse. I do not know the rules of a round robin,but I would remove that mess in a nano second. I would not be able to add to it otherwise.

The last border is distracting from the beautiful center. Maybe try to incorporate some red into your round.

How about returning it to the person who put on the striped fabric and asking her(him) if they would rethink what they had used. Would it hurt their feelings? Perhaps they don't understand the purpose of the round robin. A whole lot of energy by a lot of people being spent on this one person's contibution. They probably could do better.

I agree with quiltingeileen and quite a few others of doing 2 borders of different sizes in black (skinny one) and red to detract from the triangles. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

What if you added another cattwompus border with the triangles going the opposite way of the one they put on.

I tried, but it's a difficult case.
 

I tried to balance the wonk in eq7, but I can't say I'm happy with the results. This is tough.

I think the real trick here is to get through this without hurting the feelings of the previous round quilter. I just don't see how you can cut off what she has done or really alter it all that much. Some of the ideas presented are good and I'm sure you will come up with many more, Jan, but I really don't think you can change what has been done.

You could try adding red and dark blue (or whatever color is in the stripped border) - 1-1/2 inch squares - to make a two-high checkered border.

I've had a couple of Aha! moments after reading these next pages of ideas and am feeling more encouraged! Keep them coming, please!

As much as I want to, I feel I can't remove the work of the round 2 quilter who added these two wonky borders.

It is SO unlike her usual work....her own quilt for round robin has a lovely, well-pieced mariner's compass in the center!! The man to whom this wonky one belongs created darling, colorful, striped beach umbrellas for his round on this woman's quilt ....so unfair for him to get this from her.

My heart keeps telling me to email him with a picture of her round, which I believe he has already seen, and ask his desire for me to do in mine round for him. I'm also thinking of piecing borders such as have been suggested here, but not attaching them to the quilt, so that HE can decide how he wants to handle it.

Of course, then I have no idea how it will appear when we all stand before the guild next month to show off this round's work on the quilts we had. I'll look like a idiot for not finishing, I suppose, though that doesn't necessarily bother me....I know my heart so I rarely worry about the opinion of others in cases like this. But, I'm just sort of worried that others will realize there wasn't anything I could do about her work and will talk about her. Such a dilemma!!:confused:

Jan in VA

Jan, I think you had a great idea to contact him and get his input on it. There might be a solution that would please him and we are not hitting on it.