Border Advice, Please

Where is your quilt going to live, Nann? If its ultimate destination is
a guy's college dorm, I'd simply border it with something that plays nice
with the plaids you have used and one that doesn't show pizza stains.
On the other hand, it sure would be pretty to change the pace and put a
gently curving vine on the sides with plaid flowers and leaves; maybe even a
bird or three. Polly

"Nann Hilyard" wrote in message
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Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids
and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy
Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago
for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I
don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

My first vision was a 6" wide border of muslin appliqueed with plaid flowers
(machine buttonhole stitch) Plus maybe some applique vines in the muslin
diamonds to pull it all together. But that's really too much.

What about cutting a whole lot of 3.5" plaid squares, mixing at random.
You'd need 3 rows on each side and 2 rows at each end. IMO this would sort
of camouflage the wider side borders.
Roberta in D

"Nann Hilyard" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
. ..
Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids
and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy
Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago
for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I
don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

I like the look of white around the quilt and would add a white border
the width of the white blocks or white stripes in the quilt, and then a
border of random plaid squares, plaid 4-patches, or plaid nine-patches.
You could even use one sort on the width and one on the length to
reach the dimensions you want.

Monique in TX

Nann Hilyard wrote:
Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

I think a braid border would look beautiful on that, Nann. You have the
triangles, points and even checks! Or even Flying Geese would look
lovely. I would just put two narrow borders top and bottom to finish it
off, even if you don't want to add much length.
I think that fact of having a long pieced border, in *one* piece, would
look better than divided blocks.
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In message , Nann Hilyard
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Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann




--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

I think I would (if it was me) do a piano style border. using all the
colours in no particular order!
--
Gallagher one one at btinternet.com
My photos are here!!
http://community.webshots.com/user/EstelleUK11
"Nann Hilyard" wrote in message
. ..
Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids
and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy
Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago
for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I
don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

Howdy!

3 narrow borders, black, white, red
or black, red, black
or red, black, red
to mimic that red & black (?) plaid in the corners.
The first border would read as a solid so as to not blend into the
outer blocks.

YMMV ;-)

R/Sandy


On 11/2/07 7:54 AM, in article ,
"Nann Hilyard" wrote:

Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

If you want to add more width, make a wide pieced border on the two sides.
I like the idea of a braid border, but piano keys or just scrappy squares
would look good as well. Then add a narrow border to all 4 sides to
complete the top. Sometimes I add a border to the two sides that matches the
final border and this frames the wide pieced border, and makes it look more
planned!

--
Susan
Back in Florida, battling weeds in the garden!
http://community.webshots.com/user/sbtinkingston
"Sandy Ellison" wrote in message
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Howdy!

3 narrow borders, black, white, red
or black, red, black
or red, black, red
to mimic that red & black (?) plaid in the corners.
The first border would read as a solid so as to not blend into the
outer blocks.

YMMV ;-)

R/Sandy


On 11/2/07 7:54 AM, in article
,
"Nann Hilyard" wrote:

Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids
and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy
Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago
for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I
don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.

Ideas, ladies?

Thanks,

Nann

I'd piece the border, using mostly white. I'd put a half square
triangle in each corner with the dark half pointing in, and I'd put a
2 color triangle in the sides to match the existing 2 color triangles
so that the effect would be a 4 patch diamond extending from the quilt
top into the border. Is that obtuse enough to barely understand?

Musicmaker

THANKS! for the advice, everyone.
I used the half-square "waste" triangles that resulted from the
blocks. I sewed them together to make the flying geese.
I chose a homespun check (dark/light blue) for
the remainder of the borders. The flimsy (=unquilted top) is
72 x 78.

Here is the result:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410bxGvQk

Again, thanks!

Nann

Last weekend I took a bunch of 6.5" 9-patches made from homespun plaids
and
muslin, cast about for what do do with them, and found "Passamaquoddy
Trail"
on Quilter's Cache. (To confess: I had printed the pattern months ago
for
a whole 'nother project, which has not come to be.)

So now I have a 48 x 72 work-in-progress. This is what it looks like:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...56829410knRAsP

I'm stuck at what borders to put on. I don't want it much longer (84",
probably) but I do want it wider (66"-68"). I do not want to make
additional Passamaquoddy Trail blocks to create a square quilt, but I
don't
mind making pieced blocks for the border.