Saturday, February 11, 2012

Border quilt

I just finished the edge on this quilt last night. This first picture is of the fabric I loved the most and built the whole quilt around it. The picture doesn't show how deep and pretty the red is. I used bright yellow, greens, turquoise and purple fabrics on in the rest of the quilt.

This is the quilt. Our guild had a year long challenge. Each month, one of the members took a border pattern and made it up, then showed the rest of us how to do it. Then the next month we were supposed to show our version of that border. By the end of the year we were supposed to have 12 borders to stitch together with any additional sashing put in between. It was designed to be a small quilt but I made each border longer, then did two of some of the patterns and added some extra ones that I had found. So my quilt is twice as big as the others.
The pattern on the far left with green, red and white pieces is one of my own. I really liked this border. Also, the one with red diamond shapes was one I found. The star shape, far right was a nightmare to make, very hard, but I like how it looks. If it weren't so hard I would have made another.





There's the star shaped one again. The one in the middle with turquoise and red squares was one I found too. The one in the middle that looks like a dark and light red twisted ribbon is the border that I made and taught to the guild. I had it machine quilted-too much work for me to had quilt it.










1 comment:

Barb said...

AMAZING!! You and the quilt are amazing.