quiltingbuddy

I'm making a quilt for my brother with lots of dark fabrics and beige tones for the lights. I want to make the jelly roll race 2 pattern (with the little squares) and making my own jelly roll because its impossible to find non girly fabrics. So I'm using browns, blues, greens, greys and a couple of blacks. Yes, pretty dark overall except for the beige tones.

My question is what color should I use for the border and little squares? One of the brown fabrics has a touch of burnt orange in it as leaves, would it be too bold to use that? It's a pretty strong color when most of the rest is neutral. I also thought maybe a lighter blue. But would you do a light border with mostly darks? I usually do it the other way around so I can't picture it. Please help!

PaperPrincess

You can probably find a more subdued orange if you think the one in the print is too bright. Think that would look wonderful. Also, how about a spring or sage green? I think a light border on a dark quilt looks great! You can always double border a narrow dark or light border then a wider border of the contrasting value. Please post a picture when you are done. Sometimes it's hard to find 'guy' quilt patterns & color combos!

Tartan

How about a reverse value filmstrip border? Usually it is dark strips with little light squares but you could do beige strips with assorted dark squares.

ManiacQuilter2

What about black for your squares???

katier825

You could try a gold or orange tone with them. It's hard to tell without seeing it.

Doggramma

I think the light blue sounds pretty, or maybe a light gray. For the border, I think I'd go with a darker fabric on the outside with the light blue or light gray small inner border.

Cybrarian

I just saw Jenny D on Fons & Porter with Mary Fons doing jelly roll 2. She talked about one done in batiks with black squares and how the contrast looked so great. Sounds like your choice of a shade of orange might be just the thing- if you feel it would appeal to your brother.