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Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging
( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. |
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If it were mine, I think I would add a half inch, black narrow border to
the square you have; then add a 2.5" border of the Halloween fabric and a mixed fabrics or black binding. That will only increase the square to 41" - and that's not too big. You don't really want to make a feature of the borders - at least, I would want to focus on the centre part, for a wallhanging especially. .. In message . com, Gothikka writes Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging ( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Thanks, Pat. I haven't made a WH before and wasn't sure how big the
borders should be or the entire thing, for that matter. Gillian in SW Michigan. On Aug 27, 7:48?am, Patti wrote: If it were mine, I think I would add a half inch, black narrow border to the square you have; then add a 2.5" border of the Halloween fabric and a mixed fabrics or black binding. That will only increase the square to 41" - and that's not too big. You don't really want to make a feature of the borders - at least, I would want to focus on the centre part, for a wallhanging especially. . In message . com, Gothikka writes Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging ( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. -- Best Regards pat on the hill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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IMO you are right about the black inner border, but don't need it too wide.
An inch would be plenty (cut 1.5" strip). How big are the motifs on the jack o'lantern fabric? You only need to make that border wide enough to show them off, and 2.5" might be enough. I'd probably use 3". Too much, and the border will try to take over with fabric that bright. Roberta in D "Gothikka" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ups.com... Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging ( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. |
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For me, a wall hanging is the size of the wall space I have! But I know
that's kind of hard to judge when you are making it for someone else. -- Kay Ahr in NV http://community.webshots.com/user/kayahr to respond to me directly, remove "WESTHI" from the email address "Gothikka" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks, Pat. I haven't made a WH before and wasn't sure how big the borders should be or the entire thing, for that matter. Gillian in SW Michigan. |
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Patti wrote: If it were mine, I think I would add a half inch, black narrow border to the square you have; then add a 2.5" border of the Halloween fabric and a mixed fabrics or black binding. That will only increase the square to 41" - and that's not too big. You don't really want to make a feature of the borders - at least, I would want to focus on the centre part, for a wallhanging especially. I'm with you, Pat. I think a narrow black border is perfect -- the narrower, the better -- followed by just one further border, and 2.5" sounds good for that, too. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:32:55 -0700, Gothikka
wrote: Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging ( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. You don't need the black. Just add the orange border. To choose a border width it would be easiest to lay the border fabric under the sewn piece. Adjust the width of the orange fabric border by sliding the sewn piece over it until you like what you see. Measure the border width and add 1/2" to find out how wide to make your cuts. If you really hate to just eyeball your border width and feel you have to "go by the numbers" pick either twice the width of the green strips. or half the width of your blocks for the finished size of the border width. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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I agree with everyone else--narrow inner border and small outer border.
Also, what a cute wallhanging! -- Donna in NE La. "Gothikka" wrote in message ups.com... Could someone give me some advice on adding borders to a wall hanging ( Wuh? ), please? I used 2.5" strips for my settings on a Halloween WH for my daughter and I would like to add a bright orange jack-o-lantern fabric border, but I feel that it may need a black solid narrow inner border to offset the green and orange fabrics. I would probably use another 2.5" for the inner border, but what would be a normal size for the outer border? Would 5.5" be about right? So far, the WH is about 35 inches square, which is probably on the large size. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...59609166RoeCOI ( The pic isn't too clear and the purple fabric appears somewhat bluish ) Thanks in advance. Gillian in SW MIchigan. |
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tricky one, I would usually say for an inner border to go narrower, say
1inch, but with this quilt, it's very regular, so there would be something to be said for the strip being the same width. What I would do is lay it out on top of the orange border fabric with and tuck a folded strip of black in the relevant place, take pictures of it the same width as the sashing and with it narrower, do similar with a couple of different widths of the print border, though I think with that one my starting point would be having it the same width as the 4 patches. Great quilt! Anne |
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Thank you for all your suggestions and kind words, Ladies. It has been
a great help. I need to pick up some more Kona black fabric before I can proceed any further, but I will post pics of the WH when it has been completed. Thanks again for all your help. Gillian in SW Michigan. http://community.webshots.com/user/gothikka On Aug 27, 7:23?pm, Anne Rogers wrote: tricky one, I would usually say for an inner border to go narrower, say 1inch, but with this quilt, it's very regular, so there would be something to be said for the strip being the same width. What I would do is lay it out on top of the orange border fabric with and tuck a folded strip of black in the relevant place, take pictures of it the same width as the sashing and with it narrower, do similar with a couple of different widths of the print border, though I think with that one my starting point would be having it the same width as the 4 patches. Great quilt! Anne |
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