I didn’t have enough of the check fabric. So I went to my local Quilt store. Candy’s quilt works. No, they didn’t have this fabric, so I found something else that to my mind works just fine. I’m a quilter, we adjust.
As you can see, the border looks great, I inserted a quarter inch band of red, I will use this for the binding as well. The original pattern just called for a basic border of the background fabric, that is way too boring.
Here it is! I don’t know if this is twin size, it is certainly the lovely cuddly size for me to bundle up in. So you can see, I had fun with the borders. One thing I did, was make the top and bottom are wider than the sides. I want this to be a big rectangle, adding two baskets just wasn’t enough. Have I said that as a quilter, I know how to improvise?
Here is one close up, first of all, my quarter inch insert fluctuates, that is ok, no one will be measuring each inch. I’m not putting this in a show, this is going to be for me! Also, notice how the check went in all directions and how the newer fabric works perfectly well with it.
Had I only used the new fabric for the border, without adding these other fabrics, it might have been more apparent that this is different. But I’ll be honest, I don’t like those borders, I need interest. By that I don’t mean take one of the prints and make it into a border, I find that distracting, because elsewhere on the quilt one only sees small pieces. Which is why, in this border, I made sure to use different widths of different fabrics. Yes, it makes a simple quilt much more interesting and balanced.
Here is the backing material, I was looking at the sale fabric at Candy’s and there it was, perfect! I bought all of it, which is probably too much.
At the cutting table I noticed, this stripe is also from French General. Yes, I have a very, very good eye for color. So aside from the background fabrics, everything in here is from French General – really, I don’t do this, I love the randomness of real scrappy. But I do love how this has all come together.
For some crazy reason I got my machine serviced and shortly thereafter, the foot peddle didn’t respond. So back it went and it got a thorough clean up of the connection and now it works like a charm, which means, I can sit down and quilt this.
Do the colors look familiar? My son and his family are going to Alaska over Christmas. Eyal loves red, so he and Abba Yish will get red hats, Abba Yoch and Einav will get the same background with green, because Yoch loves green. Einav loves pink – but in this case, she doesn’t get to decide.
Leah