Thanks, and need opinions

In article ,
"Roberta Zollner" wrote:

First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué was
never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has improved my
skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué to the
corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the original floor).
Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual label as
inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album (and
devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be the last 3.
Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark blue or the printed
border stripe.

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D


I vote for the blue. The print is lovely, so it's sad not to choose it,
but it seems sort of lost against the center of the quilt. I think the
colors aren't strong enough for the quilt. The blue, OTOH, emphasizes
the center and is strong enough to contain it.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
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AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

Gosh, Roberta, your work is spectacular!!!
I like the dark blue border!

--
Donna in NE La.
"Roberta Zollner" wrote in message
...
First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué
was never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has
improved my skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added
appliqué to the corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the
original floor). Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual
label as inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album (and
devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be the last 3.
Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark blue or the printed
border stripe.

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D

Yup of the two, it must be the blue. I'm going to duck and run.....but that
wonderful center might need a bit of a pieced inner border somewhere, then
emcompassed by the blue. But what to put in is more than I could design.
I know you're ready to be done with it and would like to put on the border
and be finished. I think that's why you considered the busier fabric....you
know it needs just a "bit" more in the border than the solid fabric.
It's a fabulous piece, don't bail out too soon. It's a masterpiece. I'm
envious.

--
Kathyl who made a fabric postcard today to send as a birthday card. I'm
delaying my trip to the post office to mail it. I wish I knew if there have
been other fabric cards sent before I get there. I used one of my
embroidery cards of two women clinking wineglasses together and put the
words:
"Here's to good women!
May we be them,
may we know them,
may we raise them! I just love that sentiment!

Here's to the RCTQ women!

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"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Roberta Zollner" wrote:

First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like
the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué
was
never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has improved
my
skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué to
the
corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the original floor).
Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual label as
inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album (and
devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be the last 3.
Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark blue or the printed
border stripe.

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D


I vote for the blue. The print is lovely, so it's sad not to choose it,
but it seems sort of lost against the center of the quilt. I think the
colors aren't strong enough for the quilt. The blue, OTOH, emphasizes
the center and is strong enough to contain it.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

When you're right, you're right. I have just about convinced myself to make
a pieced border :-p
Roberta in D

"KJ" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:A0hWe.111492$084.96294@attbi_s22...
Yup of the two, it must be the blue. I'm going to duck and run.....but
that wonderful center might need a bit of a pieced inner border somewhere,
then emcompassed by the blue. But what to put in is more than I could
design.
I know you're ready to be done with it and would like to put on the border
and be finished. I think that's why you considered the busier
fabric....you know it needs just a "bit" more in the border than the solid
fabric.
It's a fabulous piece, don't bail out too soon. It's a masterpiece. I'm
envious.

--
Kathyl who made a fabric postcard today to send as a birthday card. I'm
delaying my trip to the post office to mail it. I wish I knew if there
have been other fabric cards sent before I get there. I used one of my
embroidery cards of two women clinking wineglasses together and put the
words:
"Here's to good women!
May we be them,
may we know them,
may we raise them! I just love that sentiment!

Here's to the RCTQ women!

remove "nospam" before mchsi
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz

"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Roberta Zollner" wrote:

First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like
the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué
was
never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has
improved my
skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué to
the
corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the original
floor).
Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual label as
inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album (and
devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be the last 3.
Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark blue or the printed
border stripe.

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D


I vote for the blue. The print is lovely, so it's sad not to choose it,
but it seems sort of lost against the center of the quilt. I think the
colors aren't strong enough for the quilt. The blue, OTOH, emphasizes
the center and is strong enough to contain it.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

I think the blue makes that lovely quilt stand out more.

Kathryn in Mi

The block is spectacular. I agree - the dark blue, with maybe a very simple
inner pieced border to pick out some of the other shades. I can't wait to
see it finished!

I fell in love with the same border pattern in a different colourway. But I
used it for an applique panel for a class I was teaching. The panel was
finished by a friend who loved the colours. She is not a quilter and this
was her first foray into sewing. She is more of an embroiderer. It's in
Bits'n'Pieces on webshots.

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"Roberta Zollner" wrote in message
...
First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué
was
never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has improved
my
skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué to the
corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the original floor).
Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual label as
inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album (and
devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be the last 3.
Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark blue or the printed
border stripe.


http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D

The blue - definately!

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...51241728OelHwe

Roberta in D


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You all have convinced me to use the blue, and I've started cutting a very
símple pieced border!
Roberta in D

"Mini One" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I hate to agree to anything that causes more work!
But, Roberta, I have to agree with KJ that is needs a bit more before
its done.

I think that you need the solid blue. but a thinker one than you have
there. Then something pieced or the patterned border you have in the
pictures. I think it needs a bigger frame. I'm thinking like the starred
dodecahedron 1. A bit of a blank frame to set off the gorgeousness of
all that work.

Anyway, it's gorgeous whatever you do. (Even if it is just pack it up in
a box & send it to me!)

ciao,

emilia





"Roberta Zollner" wrote in
:

When you're right, you're right. I have just about convinced myself to
make a pieced border :-p
Roberta in D

"KJ" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:A0hWe.111492$084.96294@attbi_s22...
Yup of the two, it must be the blue. I'm going to duck and
run.....but that wonderful center might need a bit of a pieced inner
border somewhere, then emcompassed by the blue. But what to put in
is more than I could design.
I know you're ready to be done with it and would like to put on the
border and be finished. I think that's why you considered the busier
fabric....you know it needs just a "bit" more in the border than the
solid fabric.
It's a fabulous piece, don't bail out too soon. It's a masterpiece.
I'm envious.

--
Kathyl who made a fabric postcard today to send as a birthday card.
I'm delaying my trip to the post office to mail it. I wish I knew
if there have been other fabric cards sent before I get there. I
used one of my embroidery cards of two women clinking wineglasses
together and put the words:
"Here's to good women!
May we be them,
may we know them,
may we raise them! I just love that sentiment!

Here's to the RCTQ women!

remove "nospam" before mchsi
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz

"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Roberta Zollner" wrote:

First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I
like the
pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!)
Appliqué was
never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has
improved my
skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué
to the
corners of the latest floor mosaic (looks quite like the original
floor).
Thanks Melissa -I plan to add your name to the eventual label as
inspiration!

Now the question. I've added 3 photos to the Mosaic Floors album
(and devoutly hope this link will take you there). They should be
the last 3. Tell me which border you like better, the plain dark
blue or the printed border stripe.


http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pic...album/15124172
8OelHwe

Roberta in D


I vote for the blue. The print is lovely, so it's sad not to choose
it, but it seems sort of lost against the center of the quilt. I
think the colors aren't strong enough for the quilt. The blue, OTOH,
emphasizes the center and is strong enough to contain it.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

so, what did you do? I have been reading old threads to catch up on
sunday morning while Sofi and DH sleep - she asked for a bottle at 6 and
then started singing 'happy to you papa' for a while before falling
asleep (not that it is anybody's birthday, mind you). I was giggling
after that and couldn't go back to sleep.

I was thinking a narrow dark blue and then the border fabric. unlike
others have said, I do like the contrast of organic vs geometric. Too
bad the yellow isn't red, uh? Then it would go even better, the
background and the blue hints are great. I was trying to think about it
this way: if the mosaic maker had had that fabric as a stone, would they
have used it to frame the medallion?

Roberta Zollner wrote:

I've already "edited" a bit of this floor. Didn't feel like doing the ring
of 64 hexagonal polyhedrons that go just next to the opus sestile triangles
:-) The original has a narrow border of black, a wider band of light grey,
then a row of grey squares set on point with a black background. Which would
look very nice, a bit more than just the plain blue but a lot less than the
busy print, but I was feeling lazy. Now that everyone has voted for the
blue, I may have to reconsider. Already spent so much time on this, what's
a few more days?
Roberta in D

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Dr. Quilter
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(take the dog out for a walk)

The top is done -you must be psychic- and in the middle of being quilted.
After everybody but one or 2 said the blue border was better, I gave myself
a stern shake and a lecture about laziness, then ended up piecing a border
about 6" wide, med. grey squares on point set in the dark blue. It's not too
loud but still better than just plain strips. The corners each have a
5-point star. I'll put up a photo soon. Thanks for asking! (Wish Sofi were
my DGD!)

Not sure what the old mosaic makers would have done. They might have sneered
a bit at that fabric -there was a sort of cheater technique back then where
they painted wet plaster walls or columns fresco-style, then polished
somehow to look like expensive inlaid stone. Kind of like considering
printed fabric a cheater version of expensive embroidery.
Roberta in D

"DrQuilter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
so, what did you do? I have been reading old threads to catch up on sunday
morning while Sofi and DH sleep - she asked for a bottle at 6 and then
started singing 'happy to you papa' for a while before falling asleep (not
that it is anybody's birthday, mind you). I was giggling after that and
couldn't go back to sleep.

I was thinking a narrow dark blue and then the border fabric. unlike
others have said, I do like the contrast of organic vs geometric. Too bad
the yellow isn't red, uh? Then it would go even better, the background and
the blue hints are great. I was trying to think about it this way: if the
mosaic maker had had that fabric as a stone, would they have used it to
frame the medallion?

Roberta Zollner wrote:

I've already "edited" a bit of this floor. Didn't feel like doing the
ring of 64 hexagonal polyhedrons that go just next to the opus sestile
triangles :-) The original has a narrow border of black, a wider band of
light grey, then a row of grey squares set on point with a black
background. Which would look very nice, a bit more than just the plain
blue but a lot less than the busy print, but I was feeling lazy. Now that
everyone has voted for the blue, I may have to reconsider. Already spent
so much time on this, what's a few more days?
Roberta in D

--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out for a walk)