Scrappy border

Sometimes, a quilt like this just needs a binding. Send a photo to post? Barnyowl

How about a narrow Sairey strip of red, then an outer border? I sew my two borders together, then first put the sides on, adding top and bottowm last. It makes a great frame. My stash includes many shades/prints of red and many know my projects byt that Sairey strip ;)

G> Well, not a scrappy border; scrappy quilt Needs a border. The grand >

A photo would really help. That said, from your description, Polly, it sounds like you're on the track I'd probably take: calming strip (1" wide? It all depends on the size of the quilt, of course), followed by another border. I think I'd go back to scrappy for that last border, though -- perhaps a "controlled" scrappy, like you'd get with random fabrics in a HST pattern, or something similar.

I like the idea of matching your binding to your Sarah strip and then doing a "tamed" scrappy border in between. Something on the order of a picket fence or a braid with your scraps arranged so as to march around the color wheel, or perhaps organized by tone. Maybe pair them with a neutral background and do half a Kentucky Chain? Depends on what you have.

NightMist

Had a neighbor friend over tonight. She was doing a Seminole border and I went through EVERY quilting book here trying to decide. The pure truth is - I don't know what decade it was that I really turned through all of my quilting books. All too often I've bought a book, glanced through it and never really loved it. It was a few hours well spent. Do you ever go wallow in your quilt books? Polly

It has been 13months since I last used a sewing machine! In that time, I have definitely 'wallowed' in my hundreds of books and magazines (both virtual and otherwise).....I want to sew again. The closest I have come to that = ironing some new fabrics to shelve. Barnyowl

Well, not exactly wallow, but sometime peruse to see misforgotten projects = or inspirations. Several years ago I culled my old Quilters Newletter magaz= ines, pulling articles I wanted to keep and recycling the balance. Those tw= o big binders are in my 6'h x 36'w design source bookcase [basically full!]= It is pretty interesting - and sometimes confounding! - to see all the dif= ferent things that have caught my eye over the years.

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I love scrappy quilts!! And I spent much of the weekend at our guild retreat working on our next raffle quilt which is scrappy. We're doing string piecing onto a WOW foundation. The result gives sort of a 4 pointed star effect. For a border we are doing a narrow border of the foundation then a 3" rim of more of the strips. The result is not subtle, that's for sure. But oh so wonderful to look at! :) Allison

There is a photo of a scrappy top I completed recently in my facebook Quilts album at . I think it is the 12th photo. You don't have to be on facebook to see the photo. I couldn't think of anyway to add a wider border to this quilt, so put a narrow solid border between the outside row of blocks and the rest of the quilt and then another strip of the same around the outside edge.

Julia > Well, not a scrappy border; scrappy quilt Needs a border. The grand

That's a terrific idea, Julia. To me it looks far more suited to the quilt than any kind of wide border would have been. (Not that I know anything about scrappy quilts! but I can manage aesthetics >gThere is a photo of a scrappy top I completed recently in my facebook

That's what I thought. It seemed to me that any wide border of plain fabric would detract from the center. It also works out well for this quilt because the inner border will fall along the outside edge of a queen size mattress, so will help with bedmaking.

Here's another scrappy one I made . This one is lap size and I simply bound it with leftover scraps of binding, so it even has a scrappy binding.

Julia > That's a terrific idea, Julia. To me it looks far more suited to the

Wow! That's really beautiful, too. You do like red - and use it well. I am hopeless with it. I only have about three pieces of red - none more than a quarter!

If the first border runs along the mattress, the hanging-down bit would have looked a little dull, in comparison, if you had used a single fabric. So, well done you for great choices. . In message , Julia in MN writes

I really like that, what a great idea!

D> There is a photo of a scrappy top I completed recently in my facebook > Quilts album at