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07-14-2013, 04:48 AM

#41

Dollyo

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Join Date: Nov 2011

Location: Durand, MI

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When I initially looked at it, I liked #1. Having studied it, I think that #2 would be best. I would like a 1/2" 1st border, then your beautiful batik, then 1/2" border of the teal. The brown binding in #2 seems to disappear. Regardless, it is gorgeous.

07-14-2013, 04:59 AM

#42

paoberle

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Join Date: Sep 2011

Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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When you lay the two borders next to the quilt, which one do you keep going back to? That's the one to choose.

07-14-2013, 05:23 AM

#43

glorcour

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Join Date: May 2008

Location: toronto

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I like the first with the brown, but I think it should be narrower maybe 1/2inch. Pretty quilt!

07-14-2013, 05:24 AM

#44

DJinSC

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Join Date: Feb 2012

Location: South Carolina, just south of Charlotte

Posts: 425

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prism99

The first one for me too. The blue in the second one is so dark it "stops" the quilt before your eye travels to the border.

What she said. I like the first one best and didn't know why. Prism explains it perfectly.

07-14-2013, 05:36 AM

#45

DOTTYMO

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Join Date: Jun 2010

Location: England Alton Towers

Posts: 6,673

Number uno

07-14-2013, 05:40 AM

#46

jeanharville

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Saratoga, Arkansas

Posts: 1,909

Quote:

Originally Posted by irishrose

#2. #1 is too close to the color of some of the fabrics in the quilt and they colors bleed together, IMO. I like #2 better with the pretty floral batik in the wide border, too.

Ditto on the brown being the same color as the brown block in the quilt and so where it is next to a brown block you can't see the distinction between the two. The blue is a darker blue and sets off both the lighter blue and the brown. IMO