One more border down

I finally decided what to do for a border on my flying geese quilt!
I had planned to piece a border of colour rectangles end to end but decided it wasn’t the look I wanted.  I then visited the local quilt shop with quilt in hand and came home with the perfect fabrics for a pair of plain borders. Of course those fabrics turned out to not be right either so in late October this quilt went into the UFO bin.
After finishing the top for Whimsy on New Year’s eve, border battles included, I was inspired to take another look at these borders as well and spent a couple of days auditioning fabric in various configurations.  It’s funny how I came almost full circle to my original idea, with a pieced border made up of all the quilt’s colours. I just placed them in a piano key pattern instead of end-to-end.

Enough chat.  Here’s the quilt, all my own pattern:

Hmmm,  I really think it looks better in person.  I suppose I could have waited for better lighting to snap the picture…
I considered putting in a narrow inner border between the center and the piano keys, but nothing seemed quite right.  Looking at the picture I think it could use one, but  full size in person it doesn’t seem to.  Doesn’t scale just mess with the mind?
I’m planning to machine quilt this one.  I have a few ideas, but I’ll let them simmer a little before I start to be sure I end up with what I like.  I do know I plan to bind the quilt in the two fabrics I intended for borders:

No name for the quilt yet.  Maybe Wandering Geese since they don’t seem to know which way to head?

A New Year’s Wish for Quilters

 

May your points always meet

May your thread never break

May your borders behave

And may inspiration never desert you

 

Thank you all for your friendship and encouragement!  I wish all of you joy and peace in 2012.

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(Borders still pending on two of these tops…)

Just under the wire

Ta da!  Just under the wire as a 2011 finished quilt top, with 20 minutes to spare:

I`m not sure how long ago I started this one, but it was back in APQ blog days, so at least 2 years ago.  I think it was closer to 3 years.  It has gone in and out of the UFO bin several times, but this week I decided it needed to be done and here it is, after wrestling the borders into submission.  The quilt really doesn’t bow in the middle the way the picture makes it seems.  I`m not sure why all  my quilt pictures do that…  Anyway, Whimsy (pattern by Darlene Zimmerman) now moves to the finished flimsy pile to await quilting.  It’s next in line for hand quilting after I finish quilting the leaf quilt.