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Just playing with borders …

… is interesting and fun., even if I don’t change the background colour to make the borders more obvious.

These are Round Robin designs with a difference in that the background fabric is the same throughout the design. Sometimes I have used a narrow strip border, and a lot of the borders are just applique or pieced blocks with some of the background between.

I like the blank spaces in the second design … I would keep some of the quilting very simple … straight lines, but there would still be some elaborate quilted border design included in the design.

I need to find time to play with Round Robin settings with added quilting layer!

I love the strip borders with tangled corners, but would like to be able to redraft the applique borders to be more symmetrical, perhaps by removing the inner applique border around the centre block, or making it wider.

I love the second design … the applique is minimal, but well balanced, and there is a lot or room for some fairly simple quilting to shine. I would avoid too many busy feathers, but would use the fan shape used in the applique with a fair bit of background filling.

Start by making a block for a cushion, then add borders until it reaches a table topper, lap quilt, double, queen or king size quilt. The width of each border can be whatever you like. Narrow strip borders can be added between pieced and applique blocks.

I love the second design with the pieced centre, applique border, pieced border, applique border and final pieced border. By keeping the borders fairly open there is room for some creative quilting.

Some times less is more.

Make that OFTEN less is more … especially when it comes to allowing space for quilting to shine.

Love the quilting space again, but also love the centre panel.

I like the first design above …

… but the second design is my favourite.

I love the tangled corners of the borders!

Interesting. Well, the cat thinks so.

I love the second one, even if the cat thinks it is boring.

Very simple borders with rather complicated corners makes a very interesting frame .

Love the mixture of applique and pieced borders in the second design.

I like interesting borders, and in the design above there are 4 of them!

Another four interesting borders, plus a very simple atrip border which is very effective in this design.

I like the first one …

… love the second one!

Nice one.

Mmmm! Another nice one!

I like the first … the distortion of using block designs in odd shaped spaces in borders makes for very interesting borders.

I like the borders in the second design too, but was intrigued with the result of using a square applique block in the sashing, and exactly the same block in the sashing squares, but with different colouring.

Distortion again!

Thank goodness Electric Quilt will print out blocks as they are in a quilt design, not in the original shape as designed.

I like it, though I will point out that the gold bits, except the sleeping cat, are meant to look like quilting motifs.

Interesting. The gold quilting still looks more like applique, but there is some purple which looks like hand quilting! Will have to do some experiments to see what I can do to make it work out the way I want it too.

In the meantime, my favourite of these two is the second one.

Love the first, but then I always love spaces to fill with quilting …

… which means I also love the second design.

Love it!

Also love the second design.

The cat prefers the second, but I refuse to play favourites with these two.

Oh, so sweet!

This project file is pretty much all so sweet … a combination of dainty block designs and pretty colours.

I am slowly retiring project files, and this is one making it’s farewell appearance today.

I am well on the way to sorting blocks designs, which has included a lot of redrawing blocks, and will start using the new blocks, and associated quilting motifs, in new projects in the hopefully not too distant future. Will have to keep this selection of fabrics in mind for one of the new projects.

By the way, I use fabrics in the ...

I love it. In fact, I LOVE IT!

Love this one too.

And this one! Three out of three ain’t bad.