Scrap Happy, Final Version

Every border that I sampled on Scrap Happy looked too busy.  Every one.  Because the interior of the quilt is so bright and dynamic, I finally settled on a simple plain red inner border, and a black-on-red print outer border.  The quilt needed a quiet spot!  I'm really happy with this final version, and over 200 quilters agree with me!

Border Decisions

I have all 30 blocks finished now for my Scrap Happy quilt.  Now I need to trim them, and sew them into the quilt top.

Now I have to decide what kind of border to put on.  This is what I had envisioned:

It looks nice in the diagram, but when I started to make it, laying out strips and sample blocks, I'm not so crazy about how it looks.

It might turn out ok, it's hard to tell from such a small sample, and I don't even have the strip wide enough so that the black is above the 4-patches.  I just don't like it!

A second possibility is this:

This one looks a little more balanced to me.  It would be bound in black, so you'd have that last little quarter inch or so to frame in the outer white strip and the colored 4-patches. It would be an easy border to make, easier than sample 1.  I'll just have to try a sample and see how it looks.  Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!