Yesterday I was finishing up a Christmas quilt that I started working on last week (2 weeks ago?), I forget. Anyway, at the point when I started working yesterday, I had just 3 blocks left to make. I decided on the fabric for those last 3 blocks, and got them sewn and the blocks sewn into basic top without borders. I had already chosen my border fabrics, which I had bought especially for the project. I cut the strips, sewed them on, and thought I was done. However, once I looked at the finished top, I wasn't happy with how it looked. I felt like the focus fabric, the Christmas kittens fabric, looked out of place once the outer border was sewn on. The picture below shows the original outer border.
I removed the outer border, but left the inner border.
I was thinking that the outer border was a bit too busy, and that it would look better with a simpler fabric that was closer in color to the green of the focus fabric. I auditioned some green fabric that I just bought at the quilt shoppe, but I don't think I have enough of it. Although I'm sure I could go buy more. But I still wasn't sure.
Then I found some other Christmas fabric that I had that was red and green. I really like it, and at first I thought I was going to go with it, but now I'm not sure about it either. I'm afraid it still might be too busy. I definitely like both of these better than the original black, red and gold holly fabric, though.
What do you think?
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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