To border or not to border, that is the question
08-04-2019, 05:30 AM
#22
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Originally Posted by nanna-up-north
I'm doing a scrappy challenge and trying to organize my scrappy totes at the same time. So, I put together this little baby quilt (35" x 44") from the blue box but I can't decide whether I should border it or not. I'm also working on HSTs to try and get better at them.
I could leave it as it is. Or...
I could border it just like the sashing. (I really am glad I did the sashing. It looks so much better.) Or...
I could border with something else.
I'd like to read some other's opinions on the matter to help me decide.
I could leave it as it is. Or...
I could border it just like the sashing. (I really am glad I did the sashing. It looks so much better.) Or...
I could border with something else.
I'd like to read some other's opinions on the matter to help me decide.
I always border my quilts. I look at them as a work of art, so bordering them frames my work.
08-04-2019, 06:34 AM
#23
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Without any sort of border, you are going to cut off the tips of the boats. Personally, I would continue the sashing with the cornerstones and then do a simple border. If you stay with only an edge sashing, cut it a bit wider so that after it is bound, it will be the same width as the inside sashings. If you add an additional border, it does not need to be very wide and could be any of the fabrics used in the top, depending on what you have left and what the top 'tells' you it needs.
08-04-2019, 06:45 AM
#24
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As someone who can never ever manage to get a quilt to be within one width of fabric, size constraints are hard on me!
So here's an idea... if you leave the basic size of the quilt as 3x4 blocks and take off the bottom and one side row, you would only be 4 blocks short of having two quilts. Then you can add that sashing border and a wider border and still be within your size constraints.
This is a sail boat top I made last year, didn't get a shot of it after the binding was done. It is a "big brother" blanket for a 3 year old so he wouldn't be jealous of the baby gifts. It's huge for a baby quilt, small for a twin, but just right for this gift.
So here's an idea... if you leave the basic size of the quilt as 3x4 blocks and take off the bottom and one side row, you would only be 4 blocks short of having two quilts. Then you can add that sashing border and a wider border and still be within your size constraints.
This is a sail boat top I made last year, didn't get a shot of it after the binding was done. It is a "big brother" blanket for a 3 year old so he wouldn't be jealous of the baby gifts. It's huge for a baby quilt, small for a twin, but just right for this gift.
08-04-2019, 01:02 PM
#26
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Love your quilt. I am always looking for different easy and quick patterns to make charity quilts and love this one. Hope you don't mind but I am going to Electric Quilt and follow your design. Hope it works.
08-05-2019, 11:51 AM
#29
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I would make a narrow border same size and color as the sashing, then I would add a darker border, perhaps twice as wide, of the dark fabric used in your blocks... the boats themselves... not sure if it is dark blue or black.
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