Phew! I have finalised my selection of fabrics for the borders of the Pieces of the Santa Fe Trail quilt. Thankfully it hasn’t involved the purchase of too much extra fabric. A total of one metre divided into two quarter and one half metre pieces. A quarter metre of grey for the narrow inner border; some extra of the dark blue for the second border & the binding; and a quarter of the rusty red to complete the sashing strips.
Here are my mock ups on EQ7 complete with colour changes:
And here’s how it all looks for real up on my design wall:
I’m planning to use the discarded pinky-peach sashing and excess fabric in a pieced backing. Funny how finishing a scrap quilt involves buying new fabric! If only I’d made the right fabric choices at the start 🙄
Never mind, I’m much more motivated to proceed now I’m happy with the colours of the fabrics.
Linking with Judy for Design Wall Monday and Beth for Monday Making. They’ve both been making place mats ready for Christmas and have plenty of interesting posts to click to from other quilty bloggers who’ve joined in with their link-ups.
Allison
Looks great! I tend to buy more fabric too when working on a scrappy quilt!
Sometimes nothing will do but a real visual. The fabric that is rejected is not really rejected…it is a head start and just right for that project in your future! 🙂
😀 That’s a very good way of looking at it! Gathering a healthy fabric stash is an essential part of patchwork quilting!