Peckish

I'm glad someone posted the Fibonacci sequence, as I read through the thread I was positive that's what the OP was looking for.

Isn't it funny how just a simple word can get so many people's hackles raised? I used the word "vendor" to describe a customer to my co-worker a week ago, she got very irritated with me because he doesn't supply any goods or services to us. But his address is stored in the database that our accounting software has labeled "vendors".

Onebyone

I took a workshop and we made a quilt using the Fibonacci number sequence. It was a weekend of pure brain hurt. I remember a square divided in two squares and then we added the two sizes together to get the next square and so on. Lots of numbers. I forgot the instructor's name but she was a math geek and had a good class. I gave up the math part and cut the squares to fit as I thought looked right. My quilt looked the same as the others that did the math problems. I trusted what I thought looked pleasing and had a better time sewing.

Gerbie

The first rule is #1 it's your quilt and you make it however you want to. Lol

If others don't like it tooo bad!

klswift

It is your quilt - so you get to make the rules!!! lay out the borders and the top on a bed top and audition them. Leave them for the day and every time you walk into the room, register your reaction. One of them will continue to draw your eye and make you smile - THAT'S THE ONE TO USE.

madamekelly

The “rule” (there are rules? Yup, you make them for you.) that I follow is, I measure how much I need to add to the quilt for the drop I want on the bed I am making the quilt for. I take that number, and divide it by the number of borders I want to use. This gives me a quilt exactly the size I want. If it is not bed size, I make the borders the way I like the look of them. I take a picture of the quilt with audition border fabrics until I am happy with a certain look.

Peckish

This awesome Donald Duck video might be much more helpful than all the math. I am not trying to be condescending; it was clear as mud to me until I remembered this video from my childhood and looked it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF0

What's amazing is this stuff comes naturally and automatically to (most) humans. Our brains seem to gravitate towards the "Golden Rule" and find it pleasing, which is probably why you didn't need to do the math.

quiltingshorttimer

think this is what you are looking for

TAMARATJO

I have a printout of the Fibonacci sequence, and very rarely will refer to it if I can't make a decision on widths. It is not really a quilting rule. Just a tool to help determine what is pleasing via mathmatics.

DawnFurlong

Interesting articles. I generally decide on my borders in the manner most others referenced. I know how big I want my quilt to be, so I figure out how much border I need to get there, then I divide that out depending on what I think looks pleasing. Interesting all the same to read about ratios and how they occur in nature. It's a good starting off point.

Phyllis nm

RULES? RULES? It is your Quit, make it the way you want, don’t go to. The quilt police!!!!