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Your thoughts/ideas ...
I saw this border fabric today and fell in love with it.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/6144452...elated-1&frs=1
I contemplated how I might use it, and thought it would make a beautiful complimentary quilt to the two chenille wall hangings I made last year to display in spring/summer.
So I searched and found this pattern which I think would/could work quite nicely.
http://quiltingdigest.com/showcase-a...an-easy-quilt/
It's very similar to Warm Wishes. My focus border fabric would be much wider than the Warm Wishes blocks.
I welcome your thoughts and maybe other ideas … Thanks.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/6144452...elated-1&frs=1
I contemplated how I might use it, and thought it would make a beautiful complimentary quilt to the two chenille wall hangings I made last year to display in spring/summer.
So I searched and found this pattern which I think would/could work quite nicely.
http://quiltingdigest.com/showcase-a...an-easy-quilt/
It's very similar to Warm Wishes. My focus border fabric would be much wider than the Warm Wishes blocks.
I welcome your thoughts and maybe other ideas … Thanks.
#3
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I could be looking at this wrong, but isn't your border a true border design, which means it is directional? Will it work in both directions; i.e., up and down and across, like the sample? Won't it be upside down in one direction?
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I was thinking what Jaiade said about the directional aspect with the pattern you linked to.
I do like how the bold floral print is showcased by brilliant solids in that quilt pictured. Peronally I'd keep looking for a pattern that would have all the flowers "growing upward" instead of any which way. Then buy the amount of fabric to fit the pattern.
I do like how the bold floral print is showcased by brilliant solids in that quilt pictured. Peronally I'd keep looking for a pattern that would have all the flowers "growing upward" instead of any which way. Then buy the amount of fabric to fit the pattern.
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I am not sure that this is a repeating border stripe vs a true border print that runs the length of the bolt printed along each selvedge edge with the blue solid filling the space between the selvedge edge border print.
send a message to the Etsy shop owner to verify how the border is set up. She should text you a picture of the fabric still on the bolt so you can see the border.
send a message to the Etsy shop owner to verify how the border is set up. She should text you a picture of the fabric still on the bolt so you can see the border.
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I have a friend who just bought that fabric to make a wall hanging. She's been trying to figure out how to use it, and one of her ideas was to have the skyline of a city in the background. I loved that idea when she sketched it out; I thought she could put a moon in there too. It looked fabulous, but she told me she's doing something else with it, which I can't wait to see. It is a gorgeous fabric.
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