When I left you on Tuesday, all of the interior blocks were finished…..
….and it was time to think about the borders.
My initial thought was that I didn’t want anything complicated. I felt that it needed to be simple to not detract from the interior.
First thought was to simply use dark squares…..
NO….that looks horrible. They are too heavy for the rest of the quilt.
What if I make a checkerboard…..
Better, but still not right!
I started playing with triangles and came up with this idea….
OKAY……I sort of like that!!
But I felt that the background fabric was still a bit too dark. What if I make it lighter…..
NOW I am getting somewhere!!!
BUT…..of course there is a but…. I didn’t have enough of this fabric to piece the border!! SIGH!!
What happens if I use the slightly darker fabric inside the triangles….
THAT WILL WORK!!!
By this point, I had reorganized my 2.5-inch squares and sorted them by color……
….so I didn’t really want to jumble them up again.
Instead, I picked the colors that I wanted to work with and pulled out the exact number of squares that I needed for the border…..
It didn’t take long for me to have the half-square triangles made…..
…. and the border strips pieced together…..
They look really good don’t they!!!
There was one last decision to be made……
I have asked two different groups and gotten completely different answers….
What do you think??
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