European block swap

Could you put a wide strip at the top and bottom before the borders and put an applique viney stem with flowers along them. Perhaps one starting from the left and one from the right, meeting and entwining in the middle?

Could you take the rows apart and put a wider sashing between them? In addition to wide borders? Roberta in D

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can you add a narrowish border, then a row of filler type simple blocks, then another border, all this at both ends? my first foggy thot of the day. jeanne

Carol used a great method on her BOM quilt. Check it out.

If you have your background fabric yet, send me! I would be happy to sew more blocks to help you to finish! marina in Rome

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Thanks Sally, I'm still thinking about it. I'm not sure :-) Looks like I have always problems with the size of my quilts Heidi

Sally Swindells schrieb:

I could do that, but I don't want to. I put a photo on my webpage under new, you can easily see, why. Where the sashing meets, there are stars. I don't know if this sort of sashing has a name, but I've seen it often and always wanted to do it. If I would take it apart, all the work with those tiny triangles would have been in vain :-) Heidi from Germany "Roberta Zollner" schrieb:

Yes, that could be an option. Maybe stars or something like that. Thanks :-) Heidi from Germany "nzlstar*" schrieb:

Yes, it's such a beautiful quilt. I'm still pondering....:-) Heidi from Germany "Boca Jan" schrieb:

Hi Marina, thank you so much for your offer, I'm really tempted to accept it :-)) Jessamy has offered me to make one too, so I would have to make only one block. I'll sleep one more night over it Heidi from Germany btw you can see your block on my page, under 'new', already on its place in row 2

marina schrieb:

just say yes and smile :-)

Hmm--- I see! But a couple rows of those stars at top and bottom would fit right in and look like you planned it that way. Roberta in D

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Thanks again, Jessamy, Marina and Estelle for the offer to help me with additional blocks. But I think I'll follow Roberta's proposal and add some stars at the top. I remeasured the top and think it will be big enough then. It's probably silly, but it would have felt like cheating if i had gotten additional blocks. Well, yes it is definitely silly :-))) Heidi from Germany P.S. And of course I'll show you the finished top