Help this newbie please..
05-03-2012, 04:21 AM
#31
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Horse Country, FL
Posts: 7,341
Welcome! You're going to like it here. It's a friendly place. Make the borders fit the length and width you need to make it do what you want it to do. Use the colors in the panel to guide the border colors. Good luck and again, welcome!
05-03-2012, 05:09 AM
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Enid, OK
Posts: 8,273
Welcome from Milwaukee. You don't have to use the same size borders all the way around. Add your narrow borders all the way around to make your 45 inches, then add some pieced lines top and bottom to make your 65 inches. It will look great. Just remember, it's your quilt. Do what you want and have fun.
exactly! welcome and have fun!
05-03-2012, 09:09 AM
#36
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: a small village about 65 miles north of NYC
Posts: 551
anyone experienced with fabric panels? I bought a birdhouse panel 30 x 40" and dont know how to add to it for a small (approx 45 x 65) quilt. I consider adding wider top and bottom borders than the side borders. I have matching printed fabric and several solid colors I can use. Would it look too out of porportion? I've used pencil and paper to try making a design and it always comes out wider than I want if I use same size borders all around....I'd truly appreciate your help.
I'm a 70 yr old newbie and dont have a clue on putting colors and patterns together.
I'm a 70 yr old newbie and dont have a clue on putting colors and patterns together.
Check out some of the pictures posted for the Round Robins in the Members Swap section - that should give you lots of ideas of how various people added borders to a center - someone creates a center or sends a fabric panel, the next person adds a border, then the 3rd person adds a second border ... really interesting, there are so many ideas and pictures, it's sure to fire you up, and like everyone has said, the borders don't have to be the same size on the sides as on the top/bottom, as long as they play together - like feline fanatic's trees - if she had used the same trees for the top and bottom as on the sides, the top & bottom would be taller, while the sides are skinny, so if trees were 5" tall and 3" wide, top and bottom would be maybe 6", with border background and the sides would be 4" - there's lots of ways to get what you want. Show us pictures when you can.
05-03-2012, 10:03 AM
#37
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Alabama
Posts: 649
Thanks feline fanatic, your picture cleared up a problem for me! I have a quilt with tulips and I put it together too long, now I have to put borders on the sides to make it look right. Now I feel better about it!
05-03-2012, 11:59 AM
#39
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Saratoga, Arkansas
Posts: 1,909
anyone experienced with fabric panels? I bought a birdhouse panel 30 x 40" and dont know how to add to it for a small (approx 45 x 65) quilt. I consider adding wider top and bottom borders than the side borders. I have matching printed fabric and several solid colors I can use. Would it look too out of porportion? I've used pencil and paper to try making a design and it always comes out wider than I want if I use same size borders all around....I'd truly appreciate your help.
I'm a 70 yr old newbie and dont have a clue on putting colors and patterns together.
I'm a 70 yr old newbie and dont have a clue on putting colors and patterns together.
05-03-2012, 04:19 PM
#40
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 314
I don't like square quilts so I added "migrating geese" to the top and bottom of one to add length then put on the borders. It turned out really cool. [ATTACH=CONFIG]332667[/ATTACH]Because you have a bird themed panel the migrating geese would be fun to add. If you can't find the directions let me know and I'll see what I can do to get them to you.
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