I got the Scrappy Double Irish Chain sewn together and pressed this evening. I auditioned several different borders. The dark blue one was just too plain. The one with reds and purple was only okay. I tried white and then 4-patches. Not quite right. Playing with the 4-patch units, we sort of filled in the outside edge while placing a white square in the center of every other block. That did it! Here's the quilt sewn together...
And here's a black and white rendering of how the border will look. I need 726 more 2" squares. Of those, 23 are white. I have only a very small bit of white left. I hope I have enough!
The border is actually 3 squares deep. The block matrix looks like this:
DLDLD
LDLDL
DLDLD
Alternating with:
LDWDL
DLDLD
LDLDL
And the corners:
DLD
LDL
DLD
And:
LDL
DLD
LDL
DLD
LDL
Twenty three of the first 2 and 2 of the second 2.
Ok, gonna try to post my comment again! lol...I love your quilt!!
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous! Love it!
ReplyDeleteNow, that's one big, beautiful quilt! Good job! Vic in NH
ReplyDeleteLove your border!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt.
ReplyDeleteI really like your quilt! I am working on one too. I am trying to not go out and buy white fabric, instead use the whites that I have. Thus, the white will also be scrappy. I hope it will look okay. I really like your planned border treatment. Keep us posted!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sally. The quilt is finished. You will find more recent blog posts showing the quilting and binding. I liked the way the borders turned out because I, like many others, just didn’t like plain borders on this quilt. I’ll look forward to seeing yours with the scrappy lights. I thought about doing this – cutting 2” light squares and piecing my light areas as well. Another option that I contemplated, and would have also liked for the borders would be to add a row of medium/dark 4-patches all the way around. Just to make the border a bit bigger. Maybe I'll try this on the next Scrappy Double Irish Chain quilt!
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