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As is sometimes the case, I can't always meet a deadline I hope for. I had planned on showing my 2nd section of Grandma's Kitchen with my plan for quilting them today as lesson #4 of Quilt Your Own Quilt, but I wasn't home enough to work on it. So I still have a lesson, just a different one!
I took my 2nd group of Grandma's Kitchen blocks and decide to sew them up with sashing & corner stones and be DONE. I want to work on other things, and this makes a nice size quilt.
It needs a border, and my brain keeps wanting to add more work .. so here is my process of deciding what to do.
First I audition
- a 2" (finished) strip of Grunge Vanilla fabric. This is the same width as the sashing.
- Then a smaller inner border of 1" finished
- and then about a 5" wide outer border.
It looks like it needs something....
If I did this wide of a vanilla border, I need to break it up with corner stones to match the sashing
That would be the perfect way to go for that size
Which is more work. Not a LOT more work, but more work.
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To make the balance of the white, red print, navy more of what I like, I reduced the size of the Vanilla inner border to a finished 1" just like the red print
That feels better and is less work.
Which border would you do?
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