*Insert a big sigh here...After making all those swags for the customer quilt, I laid out the border and prepared to get them sewn on. Oops. When I couldn't figure out why they didn't fit, I looked at the book where the customer got the pattern and saw why.
Here is a picture of what she made.
Here is a picture with the swag border.
Duh! Silly me, in my excitement to find the same quilt with a border, I didn't notice the difference in the two quilts. Hers has the 5 inch wide sashing and border and the swag one has narrower sashing and inner border. Even with the flower and leaves (yes, I made those, too...sigh again) the area between the blocks was too big to cover and look decent. After all that work, I wasn't going to mess with it further. I chucked the idea, jumped in the car, made the speed trip to the fabric shop and bought some fabric for a new border. I was able to use some of the white borders I had made, and cut new blue floral ones from the fabric I bought. The borders will be the only part of the quilt that has pattern, but I think they'll look fine. I'll get them sewn on tomorrow.
This is the quilt
I am planning a three part border that will have some nice quilting in the white part.
The print has three of the quilt's colors and the blue is just a tad darker than the solid blue.
The rest of the day went well. I quilted two quilts from the same customer, but couldn't do the third one because (drumroll here...) the back is too small. Too bad. The quilt will be beautiful when it is done, but the customer needs to fix the back first.
First up, this lovely, soft baby quilt
I used a pale yellow thread and a panto of flowers and feathers.
It shows up nicely on the back.
Next was this bright appliquéd quilt with flowers, birds, bugs and dragonflies.
I didn't want to obscure the appliqué with a busy panto, so I opted for this dragonfly pattern that went perfectly with the motifs on the quilt.
Here is one of the appliqué dragonflies.
Bright lime green backing swallowed the yellow thread, but still has some texture.
Once I had the dilemma of the border solved and Millie doing her thing, I was able to do a bit of fun sewing. Instead of the wide border of triangles, I opted for piano keys of the plaids I used in the men in hat blocks to make the outer border for the quilt. It took a while to cut and sew the bits together, but not was totally worth the fuss! Hopefully, I'll get it quilted yet this month. The pattern is Oklahoma Boomer.
Ta Da! Please excuse Penny's pen in the picture. The quilt is pretty big.
The real OK Boomers, 1889
Oh my gosh -- the agony is real!! I'm feeling sympathy pain for you over those border swags! Is your customer expecting an appliquéd border on her quilt? Will you be able to repurpose them for another project? You have a great attitude about letting it go and moving on to a different border solution that will work. If this happened to me, I'd have to wallow in some Ben & Jerry's ice cream before I'd be ready to go back in my studio!
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