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« on: October 10, 2017, 14:28:54 PM »
Ok boys, I need some thoughts here.
I have joined my mystery quilt blocks. It's grown on me as I've gone along. The 2 light coloured fabrics grated to start and I did consider changing them but that's not in the spirit of the mystery quilt is it. There's nothing wrong with them (the colours were matched with the selvedge dots of the strawberry fabric) it's just that they don't do what they are supposed to in the design but when you're up close that doesn't really matter.
Border: The only fabric with any significant amount leftover is the strawberry and I can get hold of some more of the green fabric (it's Makower Vintage Journal, still available in some places). The remainder of the fabrics came from a shop that only stayed open for about 3 months. I think a wide strawberry border could end up a bit eye squiff inducing so my current thought is (bottom picture) to get some more of the green and do a 1 1/2" strawberry border with a small green flange (I like flanges) and also use the green to bind. I thought that introducing a bit more of the green might make it seem a bit less 'accidental' in the body of the quilt.
Any views on that plan?