Quilting Heidi Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Jess I'm with you! I keep changing what I'll do. I am 100% with Shana and I will only pick two styles to repeat. Everytime I think I find something pleasing it just doesn't seem to fit. The borders giving me the biggest problems are the three in the middle. The darker border is just distracting to me and the other two borders have basically the same coloring but completely different sizes so they read different. I better figure out something quick! I know I won't do ribbon candy because I always end up slanting them and it drives me crazy. The borders are about 3" or wider so too big for me to keep it the way I want it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 OK I had a few minutes to draw some designs. All those narrow borders are crazy. I would treat the two narrow inner borders as one because combined together they are similar in size to the other inner border. SID the very narrow borders and leave those alone. And also SID the one border where the swags are offset by the swags above. If you chose to go with a feather and swag motif, here is an option and how I might combine the two narrow borders and treat as one border. Just doodling.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenH Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Wow Shana I love your idea, really calms down the amount of borders!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judi Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 This reminds me of the Pansy Park quilt - way too many borders on that baby too. I like the ideas you have been given and will leave you with those - sure you will do a great job. I look forward to seeing the finished quilt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBQLTN2 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Nice ideas, You should be able to do something with all that input Heidi. Can't wait to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 I like Shana's ideas too, Heidi I can't wait to see what you do with this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnice Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Love the idea that Shana sent. So Heidi, What is your final decision??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Yea Heidi, what are you going to do with it? Huh? Huh? Huh? Come on, fess up.. I can't see you doing much on it before Sun., but the pleasure of looking forward to doing it is there. So many ideas! So many are good.. Happy Stitching!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted April 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Thanks Shana for the drawing. I was at a work event yesterday from 7 am until 9:30 pm and boy was I glad to have that day over. We had a congressman come and then the president of our university ended up coming at the last minute. It all turned out fine but lets just say the planners of this event should be fired! Not at all the way I would have done it and all the details left until the last minute was rediculous. Thankfully we looked good to our guests but let me tell you it was a lot of last minute prep that could have been handled well in advance. I'm just glad it is over. Today we had a board meeting so I had to be in early again. I was really tired when I came home and even tried to take a nap. I couldn't sleep but it was good just to lay down and rest. OK onto this quilt. I really appreciate everybody's help. I think I've finally come up with a plan. I'm going to go down and get it loaded and see how my plan works out. I will be doing lots of feathers on this one. I hope it all comes together well. I'll keep you posted. This weekend is move out day for MIL! I so can't wait for Sunday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 I can see that by your mood..... We are looking forward to seeing your quilt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Shana, I LOVE what you did!! Heidi.... can't wait to see what you end up doing! linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 I like the swag idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandmaLKB Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Shana, you come up with the neatest ideas !!!!!! :):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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