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I bought 3 metres of this lovely on sale [not at this ebay auction...but this is the same fabric]. Now, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it.... Ideas, everyone?

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Do you remember the 'rosy posy' (was that it's name?) that Joan showed us a little while ago? I think she did at least a couple? The basic pattern was a four-patch, but made up like Stack 'n' Whack. So you had these four-patches with each quarter of each cut out at exactly matching parts of the fabric' pattern. I just looked at the fabric, and I reckon it would be super for that pattern.

I tried to find the actual name, and looked up Google groups. The best I could find was by searching on Joan 8904; but I couldn't pinpoint Joan's post with the link to a picture. Perhaps Joan is reading and can help?

I have some pretty border prints and that's what I plan to do with mine. . In message , KI Graham writes

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Patti

Ooh, pretty! If you can't think of any pattern you like, just send it over.

Maybe a strippy? Make long rows of your current fave block, or a prairie braid out of scraps. Cut strips of roses and alternate with the pieced strips. Save a strip or 2 to make the border top and bottom. Roberta in D

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Ooooooh! It just SCREAMS Stack'n'Whack to me! ME-Judy

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I saw a quilting show on TV where they used border prints. What they did was use 1/4 of a diamond and cut the shap out of the border strip, then flipped the strip and cut the identical piece out 4 times, then sewed them back together in the diamond shape. She eventually went on to make a tumbling block pattern out of all of her border print diamonds. They have the stack/wack type look to them when assembled. Anyhow it was a cool way to use a border print... I have my own print I bought just for this purpose lol. Thougfh I did make a test one out of some odd border I had hanging around, I am on my way to the beach right now, but I can post a pick of my test one later one so it all makes more sence lol

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There is a new book out, One Fabric Quilts, that is designs based on using border print stripes. Might be something to think about. (I got notice of the release of the book yesterday or the day before from AQS. )

Pati, in Phx

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Obviously, Kim, you must wrap it up quickly and mail it to me. Then I can be the one troubling over what to do with such gorgeous fabric. ;)

Seriously, I have a friend who makes simple 16-square blocks and alternates them with full blocks and then puts a border such as your border fabric arounjd the whole thing. Gorgeous, simple and quick way to havea really lovely quilt, table cloth, you name it.

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Grandmother's Fan Fussy cut Grandmother's Fan blades and use them as every other blade in each block. I think you could get several different looking blades by fussy cutting; some with the narrow stripe up the center, some with the big flowers only or a bit of narrow stripe on each side, some with the narrow stripe going across the blade. Example--For an 8 blade fan I would fussy cut 4 pieces exactly the same and alternate the print with 4 blades cut from a matching color. I could make several different fans by using different matching colored blades with the same fussy cut pattern. Then make other fans with a different looking fussy cut.

For the pictured print you could use a couple of different greens, blue, black, gold, tan, and several rose shades as colors for your alternating blades. You would need to pick one of those colors for a background, and off-white would probably be the best choice for the "handle" arc in the corner.

You could add lace trim at the edge of the fans if you want too. Debra in VA See my quilts at

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Borders on a black and rose quilt?

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Kim: Pretty fabric! How about making a 'sampler' of Lemoyne Stars, each fussy cut in a different section of the border stripe. This would be similar to a Stack and Whack method, but you could do it by cutting each diamond of each star separately. Clear as mud?

PAT > I bought 3 metres of this lovely on sale [not at this ebay auction...but

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Pat in Virginia

Ooooh, Pat! I like your idea better than mine! Of course, I'm partial to Lemoyne Stars .... ;)

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Sandy

I had been toying with this idea, too...maybe with a feathered star in the centre in a medallion set surrounded by borders of the stripe and a border of lemoyne stars?

Hmmmm...keep the ideas coming folks!

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