My quilt is TOO SMALL
09-19-2012, 06:43 AM
#45
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My question too is how would you add to this completed quilt????? It seems to me it would just not work, and might ruin a lovely quilt. If it were me, I would make another quilt for your bed-partner.......
09-19-2012, 03:03 PM
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I think the green would work fine--even better if you could applique a few colorful flowers on the wide border. But even better IMO would be a piano keys border with strips of all the colors used in the quilt. You'd only need about 12" strips of ea sewn to make yardage. You could make the keys as wide as you liked. It would be boldly striking!
09-19-2012, 04:02 PM
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I made a lovely OBW that we use on our bed, but my hubby is a cover thief. I'm going to add another border. I don't have any more of the original material but I do have more of the green strip that's in the small border.
I'd like to add almost a foot all around but wonder if that's too much. more stripes would be awful. Suggestions?
MaryKatherine
I'd like to add almost a foot all around but wonder if that's too much. more stripes would be awful. Suggestions?
MaryKatherine
09-19-2012, 05:25 PM
#49
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This quilt is so beautiful and visually pleasing. I would leave this quilt alone and just make another one that was larger. I think that adding to it will take away from the symmetry. Personally, I don't think that any of the ideas given would do it justice. You do what you think you need to do but I think you will be disappointed although I hope not.
FYI, this is one of the prettiest quilts I have seen on this board and I have looked at lots of them.
PPS I think maybe ube quilting's suggestion might be okay. Notice I said might
FYI, this is one of the prettiest quilts I have seen on this board and I have looked at lots of them.
PPS I think maybe ube quilting's suggestion might be okay. Notice I said might
09-19-2012, 06:07 PM
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I think the green would work fine--even better if you could applique a few colorful flowers on the wide border. But even better IMO would be a piano keys border with strips of all the colors used in the quilt. You'd only need about 12" strips of ea sewn to make yardage. You could make the keys as wide as you liked. It would be boldly striking!
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