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Boston1954 04-07-2014 03:57 PM

I would go with a nice neutral. Deep grey or a black blender.

NJ Quilter 04-08-2014 02:55 PM

Now, I'm not a scrappy person but I think a black binding would frame your quilt beautifully. I think black is a wonderful, bold, neutral.

Shorebird 04-09-2014 06:22 AM

I like a solid binding with a real scrappy quilt - either picking up one color that you LOVE from the quilt, or use a basic black ( which I buy by the bolt because I use so much of it )

judith ann 04-09-2014 07:11 AM

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Sewnoma 04-09-2014 07:19 AM

I love scrappy quilts and I go FULL ON SCRAPPY; no controls. In fact the weirder the individual fabric pairings are the more I like it! I think it helps get me out of my color comfort zone which benefits other projects.

For binding - I save excess binding from other quilts and use those to bind my scrappy quilts, so they are scrappy from edge to edge. It's a big chaotic blast of color and patterns and I love it that way. :)

KalamaQuilts 04-09-2014 07:34 AM

I like red or cheddar for binding on scrappy quilts. Never anything light, it shows finger grime too fast ;)

Or lots of times if I have a plain inner border then I make candy cane binding out of the scraps, love it.
It is just scrappy strips stitched together on the diagonal which then looks like candy cane stripes. Really lovely.

TeresaA 04-09-2014 07:47 AM

I made a very bright scrap quilt recently. The binding will be done with a purple and violet checkered fabric that reads reasonably dark.

I have a bad tendency to go to blue on my scrap quilts, and very thin bindings.

linhawk 04-09-2014 08:20 AM

Bonnie Hunter just used a red binding on one of her scrappies. I really liked it.

quiltmom04 04-09-2014 08:41 AM

I use fabrics from the quilt. Not so much as a "candy stripe" binding, but I use a length, say 18" or so, of one fabric, then switch to another one. It ties the quilt colors together.

sewmom 04-09-2014 01:40 PM

I like a scrappy binding, especially if there is a solid border on the edge.


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