Shadow Quilt border ideas...

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I followed a Judy Martin scrappy quilt pattern for this baby quilt except that I opted to use only two different fabrics for the 'floaters' ..... now that I have reached the border decision, I don't like the effect of her suggested design on the rest of the quilt. I was dubious about it to begin with and I didn't cut too many squares. Any other ideas to play with the border setting would be appreciated. jennellh

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Jennifer in Ottawa
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I think I'd skip having a border. If you need it to be larger just continue the blocks and then bind it. (Or have a 1-2 in. inner border with more of the same blocks outside the inner border then the binding???) I think it's a really cool quilt- LOVE it!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie& The Furbabies in MO.

I first thought, like Leslie said, just put a wider border of the sashing fabric. However, then I had another look, and tried to squint! Could you have a go at not staggering the border squares? This may be 'airy fairy' (and I'm not usually that as you know!), but I felt my eyes needed to come to a place where there was no movement? Perhaps that was all the squinting, but I just thought that a 'still' border would be more of a 'conclusion'? I'm getting tied up in words here - hope you get a glimmer of what I am trying to convey? It's a really nice quilt. I have a shadow book - not Judy Martin's - but it is something I really do want to try. . In message , Jennifer in Ottawa writes

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Patti

I had a somewhat similar reaction. What if you don't use the colors in the border but use the black (? my screen may not have rendered that right) where the yellow blocks are and skip the blue ones? That probably made no sense. What I am trying to describe is a straight row of the dark squares running through the center of your background border.

Maybe I should just silence myself :-)

Rita

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Rita L in MA

How about repeating the shadow effect -- gray all the way around -- then block on the bottom and right. Then when you bind it -- bind the gray in gray and the black in black -- to further the shadow effect?

Just a thought.

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Kate in MI

Delightful. I love it, love it. You just did a wonderful job in choosing colors so that you have the floating appearance. I think I've done a similar quilt but don't remember that mine had that dynamic an effect. Great quilt. As to borders, I really don't like the proposed one either. You don't need another design going. That quilt top stands alone. Seems to me that simply putting that background fabric around and then the shadow fabric for a frame would be best. IMHO, of course. Polly

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Polly Esther

I agree with Polly on this one.

I think it's stunning.

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DiMa

Polly's idea has my vote too! I love the quilt...have it in my "to do someday" file!!

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The National Safety Council reports that nobody has ever died from piecing a sashing, border, binding, batting or backing. If you just shudder at the very thought, send it to me. (BWAaaaaHaha). I love that quilt. Smart remarks aside, I just pieced some very pale pink batik for a border and was quite surprised to see it change colors only slightly. When I was placing it on the design wall, one direction was visibly different from another. I had to mark the strips: right side and 'up'. Polly

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Jennifer in Ottawa

Great quilt! I want one just like it.

For your borders, I'd use the same material as your sashing and same width. You have that in one of your possibilities and to me it made the shadowquild look like it was floating.

Do share the final product!

Donna in WA

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Lelandite

I like Donna's idea too. If you want a bit of something more you could add a narrow inner border of the shadow fabric (ie sashing width of bkgd, then narrow shadow fabric, then outer border of bkgd) then bind with the background fabric.

The floating effect is wonderful!

Allison

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Roberta

Howdy!

What Roberta said, add another color IF you must add that last border, the border of squares which do not "float", have no "shadows",the border that detracts from the main point of your quilt, floating w/ shadows. When you get to the end: stop. You're there, J.

R/Sandy

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