"Morning Glory" (Frances Lilly Designs)

[Acorn]

Oooh - beeyootiful!  Lovely to have some eye candy on a Saturday morning!

[Vegegrow]

That's lovely Ruby

[Lantana]

Stunning truly stunning!

L 

[rubywishes]

Alrighty......I'm struggling with the idea of borders....definately don't want to spend a gazillion hours making more HSTs etc so was thinking of a couple of plain borders...maybe a darkish green, 4" border followed by a white 5" border and then the dark green as the binding. I'm thinking  the two different colored borders at only 4" each won't be so wide that they need a lot of quilting to dress them? What do you think? And what sort of quilting would you do.....SITD or something a bit more pattern-ish?
But then, maybe it would look weird with a couple of plain borders and no HSTs etc so if I can't be bothered doing more blocks I should just put a binding on it and leave it at 70 x70"?

[Deafoldbat]

It would look really nice with a sawtooth border, or maybe some flying geese. It probably would look weird with just a plain border - might suggest you'd wimped out of trying anything else. If you're all HST'd out right now, why not put it aside for a week and then have another look at it. Unless there's a deadline to finish it, what's the harm in letting it 'mature' while you decide.

[BrendaP]

This quilt had the sawtooth border made with the prairi points folded diagonally twice so that they slipped inside each other.  This one has them made with a straight fold and then corners to centre.

[rubywishes]

sigh......Brenda and DOB....you're right....sigh........

postscript: decided today on a 2.5" dark red with geometric thin black lines through it border to frame the body of the top and then a 3.5" border of quarter square triangles in white and the same red as the first border...did a practice run with a small piece purchased and am happy with it so tomorrow it's back to the shop to purchase what's needed. phew, feel much better now that I've got over that hump! Just as long as the blooming shop still has the fabric that is...it was the only bolt they had...yikes 

[rubywishes]

I finally found time this weekend to finish the border on this quilt top and am very pleased with it. When it is complete, the binding will be the same red as the first border and the corner blocks and I have a lovely fire engine red backing for it. Lordy, that thing took about 4 washes and 2 soaks with colour catchers before I got all the excess dye out of it..phew!  I won't be sandwiching and quilting it for some time as I have a few other quilts I want to get to the same point so I can quilt them all together as I will be swapping machines out of my table to do the quilting......maiden voyage with the Juki...how excited will I be!  I think this quilt will be SITD all over each block and am going to have a crack at fmq SITD with it.

S'cuse the brown quilt peeking out underneath the new top on my bed.

[Acorn]

Oooh!     That is really lovely.

[Pearl]

Beautiful, Ruby!   

[Iminei]

Soooo beautiful ...Well done Hon!

[Sandra]

That's lovely! 

Sandra.
xxx

[Lilian]

That is a fabulous quilt Ruby!   

[Syrinx]

I love Jacob's ladder designs and yoyrs looks wonderful!

I've got a Jacob's ladder quilt to make at some point and might follow your just grab and sew method instead of colour matching! Fabulous result!

[rubywishes]

Thankyou everyone...I've now folded him up safely in his pizza box and stored him on the shelf! I'm looking forward to quilting it, trying my hand at fm SITD but it is going to have to wait a while.