The quilt guild I belong to has a challenge, Tell Me a Story, the quilt needs to include orange, be 100 inches around and the story needs to be 100 words or less, can be real story, a made up one in your own head or follow along a nursery rhyme or a whole trilogy of books....
I haven't gotten my story written yet, will be something about My Garden, (I could talk all day about it) maybe along the lines of how I enjoy square foot gardening ... the planning, spacing, symmetry that goes along with the way I garden and how I also enjoy the same things in my quilting, all the little squares put together making a whole....
Here's my question for you folks, what color would you use for binding? I won't throw out there what I'm thinking because I don't want to put any thoughts in your heads....
Also I won't tell you quite yet my thoughts on the design or what I'm thinking about the quilt because I want you to tell me.... be truthfully honest please! I won't take any offense, PM me if you really want to be blunt! The quilt isn't for an award or a juried show, just to show to the other folks in the guild - those folks have all levels of experience in quilting so I want to be kinda prepared for how others may react
The quilt isn't finished yet, I've almost (yeah right!!
) have the inside part quilted, the outer 2 borders I have not even started on what type of quilting design to use, let alone put in a single stitch there, so suggestions on what type of design in the outer borders would also be helpful, in the inner part, the quilting follows the grid work of the fabric design itself. I am hand quilting this one.
Here's the picture of the quilt and here's a picture of my garden.
I haven't gotten my story written yet, will be something about My Garden, (I could talk all day about it) maybe along the lines of how I enjoy square foot gardening ... the planning, spacing, symmetry that goes along with the way I garden and how I also enjoy the same things in my quilting, all the little squares put together making a whole....
Here's my question for you folks, what color would you use for binding? I won't throw out there what I'm thinking because I don't want to put any thoughts in your heads....
Also I won't tell you quite yet my thoughts on the design or what I'm thinking about the quilt because I want you to tell me.... be truthfully honest please! I won't take any offense, PM me if you really want to be blunt! The quilt isn't for an award or a juried show, just to show to the other folks in the guild - those folks have all levels of experience in quilting so I want to be kinda prepared for how others may react
The quilt isn't finished yet, I've almost (yeah right!!
) have the inside part quilted, the outer 2 borders I have not even started on what type of quilting design to use, let alone put in a single stitch there, so suggestions on what type of design in the outer borders would also be helpful, in the inner part, the quilting follows the grid work of the fabric design itself. I am hand quilting this one.Here's the picture of the quilt and here's a picture of my garden.
