Border opinions please!

Hi Roberta, you are right when you say "that's a lot of geese" and
Ragmop probably would give up waiting for the finish. It is a
possible though for a small 4-block cloth that I'll put together to
test out the options. I have 4 residual blocks that I can use to
audition the ideas. Thank you for sending your suggestion, jennellh


On Aug 15, 7:37 am, "Roberta Zollner" wrote:
IMO it would look wonderful with a narrow strip of dark blue, then a scrappy
row of flying geese, then more dark blue. But that's a lot of geese!
Roberta in D

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I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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Jennellh:
Fantastic. I'd like to see a dark blue 'solid' border,
maybe 1.5", as Ragmop suggests. Then add the scrappy
flying geese, as Roberta suggests. BUT .... just use
some geese in a few areas, not all around the
perimeter. Put the geese along the upper left corner
and the lower right corner. Leave the other corners
with out geese. Color? Blue geese on yellow ... all
scrappy of course.
PAT in VA/USA

jennellh wrote:

I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

Thank you for sending another option, Debra.
jennellh

On Aug 15, 12:12 am, Debra wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:08:15 -0700, jennellh





wrote:
I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )

I'd pick a bright blue, a darker blue, and a gold. Do a medium border
in the brighter of the two blues, a narrow border of gold, and then a
final wider border of the darker blue for the outer border.
Debra in VA
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Thank you, Sandy - I'm pleased that you approve of my blue scrappy!
I'm going to put together the 4 residual blocks into a border option
test cloth - should be fun to work on. I do think that the narrow
border will need to be a different colour to stop the flow of yellow/
gold - will have to audition the choices available in the stash. I
enjoyed looking at all your photos again - keep on sending the links!
jennellh


On Aug 14, 5:50 pm, Sandy Ellison wrote:
Howdy!

Oh be still my heart! It's scrappy & I'm in love!

If you want to "stop the golds & yellows", a narrow border in
dark blue would do it; that way the colors of the blocks
don't bleed into the border; dark blue (darker than any other
blue you've used on the edges of those blocks) will frame the
pieced top and say "I meant to stop here" while staying w/
one of the main colors in your quilt blocks (blue!).
A scrappy border, different from your block pattern but w/
the same fabrics, including those golds & yellows,
would be gorgeous.
I hope you Finish it soon 'cause I'm tired of waiting. VBG
(Okay, so I don't *do* UFOs.) I also hope you behaved yourself
at the wedding; being a baby is no excuse! ;-P

Cheers!
(free opinions are worth the price!)

R/Sandy-- this is not a "narrow" border but the yellow does
say, "Scraps: stop here!" before adding the scrappy border:
http://tinyurl.com/2clmys

On 8/14/07 2:08 PM, in article
om, "jennellh"



wrote:
I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Patti - could this be the beginning of a 'conversion'? The red/
rust is also a colour option and one that I will audition. Thank you
for mentioning it, jennellh.


On Aug 14, 4:33 pm, Patti wrote:
What a lovely quilt. I love it (and as is well known, I don't usually
'do' scrappy - I think I must be the leopard that is changing her
spots!!). Anyway: yes, I like the idea of a narrow, then a scrappy
border; and I really like Pati's idea of a second narrow border. You
could then bind with different fabrics joined together.
You know you have some reds showing in the pretty blocks? Could you
audition a red narrow border? It might be too outrageous, but I thought
I'd mention it - I can't tell without trying it, though.
.
In message . com,
jennellh writes





I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )

--
Best Regards
pat on the hill- Hide quoted text -

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Hello, Miss Polly, Winston's new game this week is to play-attack his
image in the fridge door and then take off to hide from the other cat
that never seems to chase him! When I next go to my sister's, I'll be
taking the quilt top with me (hoping that I can persuade her to do the
pressing - shouldn't be too hard) and I will have to do the
measurements on their bed to know how wide the borders can be - also
to let them grow accustomed to the colours - the backing fabric that I
have is a neutral toile so it is completely opposite to the top
colours. jennellh



On Aug 14, 4:04 pm, "Polly Esther" wrote:
Naturally, I was detracted by the charms of Winston and had to go over and
admire Mr. Cute. He is just so dear. Meanwhile, back to the quilt - it's
lovely. To decide how to finish, how about putting it on a bed and doing an
audition of border possibilities? One of them will say 'yes', assuming of
course that you don't have too much help from Winston. Polly

"Pati C." wrote in message

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yes.

VBG
Either would work. Depends on how much of what fabrics you have and so on.
I like the idea of the narrow border then the wider scrappy pieced border,
perhaps with a final narrow border and/or binding to match the first
narrow border??

Looks good.
Pati, in Phx
http://community.webshots.com/user/PatiCooks

jennellh wrote:
I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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I'll be setting up an all-options 4-block cloth to audition the
possibles and I will try out the non-strip approach as well. Thank
you for your suggestion, jennellh.



On Aug 14, 3:45 pm, "dogmom" wrote:
That is *really* gorgeous! I appreciate your decision not to wait until
their 60th, too--a version of "Eat Dessert First". I'd go for your first
suggestion of the narrow strip and then rectangles....altho', as I look at
it again, you might not even need the gold strip; maybe just go with the
rectangles. Bind it with gold if you want to add a dash of it.

Dogmom

"jennellh" wrote in message

ups.com...



I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Pati, lots of fabric selections available to test any and all
options - no problem. This could take a lonnnnnnnnnng time...jennellh


On Aug 14, 3:48 pm, "Pati C." wrote:
yes.

VBG
Either would work. Depends on how much of what fabrics you have and so
on. I like the idea of the narrow border then the wider scrappy pieced
border, perhaps with a final narrow border and/or binding to match the
first narrow border??

Looks good.
Pati, in Phx



http://community.webshots.com/user/PatiCooks
jennellh wrote:
I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. The blocks are 11" finished and the quilt top is
queen-sized and currently measures 88" x 88". The quilt is intended
for my sister&bro/law who will have been married 58yrs on the 20th -
why wait until the quilt is finished? - for their 60th??? I might add
that on their wedding day, I was a 6month old babe, in case anyone is
wondering........and I have the pictures to prove it!

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Monique, thank you for your suggestion - it will be auditioned,
jennellh


On Aug 14, 3:15 pm, monique wrote:
I'd make a narrow border using bits of all the golds/yellows, then a
wider, piano-key type border of pieces of all the blues. It's going to
be gorgeous whatever you do.

Monique in TX



jennellh wrote:
I have created a "Ufo" album in webshots where those sort of items
will sit and wait http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl

The blue scrappy was finally stitched together yesterday (it was a
good atmospheric day for sewing!) - now I have to consider my options
for bordering it. snip

I am thinking about a plain narrow strip to stop the golds and yellows
but then using varying rectangles of all the fabric colours to make up
a wider border OR carrying the golds and yellows out into the borders
but using only one of the blues ....... please offer any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, jennellh )- Hide quoted text -

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Howdy!

Thank you. Thankyouverymuch!

Why'd I make it? Fabric speaks; this one said, "Do this!" VBG

R/Sandy


On 8/14/07 5:41 PM, in article ,
"dogmom" wrote:

RM--I just LOVE that quilt of yours; it's about time I told you that.
Inspiring for sure! What gave you the nerve to do it? I don' t know if I
could ever stretch that much but it works so well!

Dogmom

"Sandy Ellison" wrote in message
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Howdy!


Cheers!
(free opinions are worth the price!)

R/Sandy-- this is not a "narrow" border but the yellow does
say, "Scraps: stop here!" before adding the scrappy border:
http://tinyurl.com/2clmys