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On Jan 6, 4:50*pm, "Taria" wrote:
So I am going to try and finish up some projects that have stopped me at various stages. *I have out my tumblers top and am trying to work out a border. *The quilt room has lots of fabrics all over the place. I have been pulling looking for just the right colors. *DH wandered through a few minutes ago. *He comments "did something happen?" No, why? *I look around and golly it looks like a tornado came through. Sure wish I could make up my mind on this silly thing. Lack of choices has no part of the problem. *I am determined, if that helps. Taria Hey, there is name for that. I learned this in the Piece o' Cake applique class. You're not just dragging out fabric and strewing it all over. You are "auditioning fabrics." Sherry |
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Good for you! But remember, sometimes a quilt doesn't want a border.
Roberta in D On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:50:52 -0800, "Taria" wrote: So I am going to try and finish up some projects that have stopped me at various stages. I have out my tumblers top and am trying to work out a border. The quilt room has lots of fabrics all over the place. I have been pulling looking for just the right colors. DH wandered through a few minutes ago. He comments "did something happen?" No, why? I look around and golly it looks like a tornado came through. Sure wish I could make up my mind on this silly thing. Lack of choices has no part of the problem. I am determined, if that helps. Taria |
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On Jan 7, 7:27*pm, "Taria" wrote:
Okay, let's do a bit of analysis here. G If you want to do sort of strippy side borders with applique (Sounds like a really neat idea.... should be wonderful) then you probably want to use a fairly neutral border. (I may be being influenced by the trunk show at the meeting last night. Tonee White was our speaker and she works a lot in "primitive and country" type colors. G) But tumblers tend to speak of sort of early stuff..... more primitive than Baltimore Album type applique. ????? Style not color...... You may want to start with thinking about what fabrics you will use for the applique, and what the applique will be. Then use a border fabric that will show off the applique. For example, if you are using scrappy, "folky" applique then you could use a basic muslin or similar for the border. If you want to use brights for the applique then you might want a black or pretty dark border. That should help narrow things down a bit. G Have fun and hope we get to see pics at some point. (Maybe a pic of the top as is would generate some more specific suggestions???) Pati, in Phx The colors are my problem. *I am working through it today. I tend to be pretty traditional in quilt patterns but somewhere along the way in the saving scrap tumblers or assembling them I got this hairbrain idea that a border would be fun. I am going for just the long sides. *Some whimsy with these kind of big applique flowers. *It is just so unexpected it might work. *I am having fun with it all and have somewhat cleared the tornado. * There wasn't any planning initially to this quilt. I got the template some time ago and when doing other scrap quilts I have been cutting these out and just setting them aside until I had a mess of them. *I really planned on just total tumbler pieces but I think I saw the border in a magazine and it jumped out at me. Thanks to all for the suggestions! Taria |
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Taria wrote:
The colors are my problem. I am working through it today. I tend to be pretty traditional in quilt patterns but somewhere along the way in the saving scrap tumblers or assembling them I got this hairbrain idea that a border would be fun. I am going for just the long sides. Some whimsy with these kind of big applique flowers. It is just so unexpected it might work. I am having fun with it all and have somewhat cleared the tornado. There wasn't any planning initially to this quilt. I got the template some time ago and when doing other scrap quilts I have been cutting these out and just setting them aside until I had a mess of them. I really planned on just total tumbler pieces but I think I saw the border in a magazine and it jumped out at me. Thanks to all for the suggestions! Oooh! That sounds really fun, and I bet it looks fantastic. :-) Michelle in Nevada |
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