Designing a wallhanging

That is so lovely - look forward to your pictures.

Di

Depending on how much longer you want it to be, I would add a rectangle on the top and the bottom - of as close to the proportions of the original as possible, just horizontal rather than vertical. It's pretty close to 1:2. Try to incorporate the double outer border, into your additions, and keep the colours as close as possible. If you could find a stained glass type block that looks like a 'crazy quilt' block (and I'm sure I've seen some), using very closely matched colours, that should look just fine. . In message , Polly Esther writes

Oh my goodness, thank you, Pat. No block I'd thought of felt right - but crazy patch does and I do have fabrics that will do it. I'll toy with that idea. Polly

I love all things Stonehenge! It's such cool-looking fabric, and it feels good in my hands.

I had seen that panel, and I truly understand what you mean about it jumping into your arms - it's irresistible. I like Pat's ideas. My first thought was to add a border in a solid color along each side to give you the additional width and length and then follow up with a piano key border in solid colors to the top and bottom to give you the extra length you want.

Whatever you do, it'll be gorgeous.

Louise > I saw this panel and it just jumped into my arms.

'Maybe' I could do piano key. I do think it would look good but I just put piano key border on a crib quilt and had a hard time forcing me to finish it - golly, that does get to be ho-hum in the doing of it. Would have helped if the tv had a good movie on.

How about making a frame for it? If you have some wood grain fabric you could do just a plain frame with mitered corners. If you want to do a little fancier you could do a bronze, gold, or black colored fabric, or optimally match the framing color in the panel, and applique a wrought metal frame. Wrought metal frames in particular tend to come plain on the long sides and with fancy do on the short sides. Which would work well with just a little wider and a fair bit longer. Especially if you could get close to the darker greenish tones on the outside edge of the panel to back the applique with.

NightMist

Wow! I can see why that jumped into your arms, Polly ? it's gorgeous! I love Pat's ideas; repeating the printed border would be as unobtrusive and "fitting" as can be. :)

I just wanted to say it looks lovely and I'm not really into "stained glass" applique nor those colours. Quite realistic!

-- Jo in Scotland

I expect that's why I needed to holler 'help'. Not into WH, not into stained glass and the colors are lovely but not mine either. Thank you all; lots to think about. Polly

"Jo Gibson"

Howdy!

Other ideas for increasing the size of this panel:

ooo - more fabric http://t> I saw this panel and it just jumped into my arms.

Okay. We're not in Kansas anymore. I've never done a WH before. This creation isn't going to do hug. It's going to speak. Got the panel framed and bordered. Added a space above and below like Pat S said. Added curved nice vines. Made leaves. Stuffed them. Thinking of doing loose magnolias. Now my planning brain is thinking of what to do about stamen. Beads and wire and gold thread? Ah. Maybe it's good for me to step outside my quilting crib quilts for needy babies just for the change. This is fun. Polly

Check your LNS or online for specialty fibers. There are bazillions of different needlework fibers that would work for flower stamens. The stuff I use is mostly made by Rainbow Gallery and they have a HUGE selection of absolutely gloriously colored fibers of all different sorts. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary /\___/\

Here's today's "strange". Leslie emailed me on how she created the centers of her magnolia WH. For some reason (?), she can not write to the newsgroup. I, OTOH, can read fb but can not write there. Maybe it's the moon? Polly

I'm anxious to see photos of this one, Polly! It's so different from what we usually see from you, and I'm sure it's going to be wonderful. :)

Found something as I was noodling around the net today looking for stained glass celtic knots.

NightMist

Duly noted! Also the 'barn owl' on another page plus so many other delights to add to my applique collections. barnyowl/Jenx