i have been quilting...sorry to clog the blog with so many trip posts and nothing quilting...
today i redeem myself :)
first, betty's blooming batiks quilt...
since it looked like flowers, i ran with the idea for the quilting...
shot of the flowers on the back
shot of the border on the back
then i quilted tracey's OBW
with the busy fabric, it just got an E2E
*HOORAY* i have all the blocks hand appliqued for my birds of a feather quilt!!! i just need to piece all the HST and 4patch pieces that make up the setting. i am debating on a applique outer border. i'm scared that i don't have enough brown background to do it...
remember i started the quilt using the pattern from BlackBird Design in the "Birds Of A Feather" book, but became bored with 'copying' their designs and started seeing things i didn't like and started changing them...so it's 20% them 80% me:)
would it be okay to have an appliqued border that is a different color? i think i remember where i got the brown- i'm going to make a trip to see if i can get the same color...
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not that you needed too (I enjoyed your trip west posts) but this one redeemed you quiltingly! Love your appliques-not my cuppa so I like to see the work of others.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be a glorious quilt. And, yes, it is ok to use a different background fabric for the borders. Probably best to not be the same color (slightly different shade) because then it really does look like you ran out of fabric. lol
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