Many of you mentioned in my “Give up a Step” post that you struggle with borders. I have an idea! For those of you who have quilts needing borders, if you’re kinda stuck on what to do, how about you send me a picture of your quilt and the measurements of the quilt as it is now. Since we have Stash Sunday, Design Wall Monday, we can do Border Tuesday! I’ll post a picture of your quilt (if you send it to me, I have permission to post the picture, ok?) and ask for suggestions for borders. For those with EQ, you can draw it out if you choose or you can just make the main part of the quilt plain squares and then show the borders so you don’t have to draw out all the blocks . . which could run into the evil copyright issues anyway. You’ll have a week to email those drawings/suggestions to me and then I can make a post the next Tuesday with all the suggested drawings. Or, if you want to just write out your suggestions, you can leave them as a comment on the original post. Make sense? Maybe not but I know what I’m thinking.
1. Send me pictures of any quilts you have that need borders. Include the size of the top as it is now, along with any information as to where you got the pattern, the designer, the book, etc. We need to give credit to the designer.
2. On Tuesday, I’ll post one quilt with the info as to size, designer, etc.
3. Blog readers can either leave comments which can include figures, links to quilts they have done or seen that have borders you think might work or you can email me any time before the next Tuesday. On that following Tuesday, I’ll post all the pictures you sent me and then I’ll post another border dilemma quilt.
Sound like fun?
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This is a fantastic idea!
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Your border party idea is a fantastic idea. It should help us get through some of these quilts we just don’t know what to do with! Thanks for sharing all that you do with us.
You’re moving too fast for me. LOL I haven’t even caught up with design wall Monday and now your on to border tuesdays. After two years, you’ve finally nudged me to put the design wall up on the wall. It’s just been one of those things I’d forget about until I was crawling around on the floor with aching knees arranging blocks wishing I had the design wall up. Well, today finally bought my supplies so I can finally put it up.
What a great idea, thanks. We quilters really are all keeping you busy aren’t we? As for a design wall, I’d love one, but can’t find a wall that’d be suitable since my “sewing room” is the conservatory.