mjkgquilt

Carol, the 1st photo is the best!!!

paintmejudy

Carol, my vote goes to the wider. The other seems too skimpy for the size of yur quilt. I think it turned out wonderful, love the colors. And don't think it is too dark like you mentioned.

audsgirl

Chasezzz, your quilt is just gorgeous! I really love the fabric you used as the border/backing. I'm intrigued with how you managed to get the double sided skinny border. That is such a neat treatment.

Leslie

Carol in WI

Thank you Judy, Cathy and mjkg....I guess I just needed some confirmation that it wasn't too dark or overwhelming to the blocks. I'm starting to get more comfortable with it....and really agree that the wider one is more balanced.

SusieQOH

Carol- love your quilt!! I vote for the wider too. Just looks more balanced to me. But either would still be so pretty.

Chasezzz

Thanks everyone for the kind words about my quilt. Carol, yours looks lovely and I too like the wider border.

Audsgirl, I used a favorite method to get the double sided skinny border. After I sashed the blocks together and did the same width as the sashing around the top, I layered the quilt and quilted it. Then I "grew" it by adding the skinny border (red on the front and pink on the back), inserting the batting for this border and then doing a single stitch line through that sandwich to secure the batting within the border. I did opposite sides and then the other two sides. After that I repeated the process with the wider border of the feature fabric front and back. This is a quilt-as-you-go technique I learned online somewhere. Before the additional borders, the quilt was less than 42" wide so this method allowed me to back it with a piece of my feature fabric that was not pieced. Additionally, quilting was easier on my DSM than it would have been if I waited to sandwich and quilt until the top was completely pieced. This method also allows wonderfully precise pieced back and front borders.

m-fay

[ATTACH=CONFIG]603108[/ATTACH]1block done 47 to go, I think. I'm doing queen size. I like how it's turning out .

Carol in WI

m-fay, your block is beautiful ~ the colors match the grass/flowers in your avatar. It will be very striking. Please show us again when you are finished.

paintmejudy

m-fay your colors are stunning!

paintmejudy

Lookie lookie, more lovely polka dots! Thank you, Mary, the colors go so nicely together. They will end up, all 3, in a block someday. Love them together. And love the sewing machine pin, it will be pinned on my quilt group name tag. Thank you for everything.