It started out pretty simply.... a request for a rainbow quilt. After researching high and low, I decided to use a bunch of fat quarter from my stash and sew a bargello.
I added a border but it just didn't look right. It was too narrow. Beefing up the width with borders wasn't going to work... they'd overpower the rainbow effect.
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| Yes, that's my striped sock peeking out |
I set it aside for a month while I noodled through possible solutions. Nothing I thought of was do-able. Nothing clicked as the right answer. I finally spread it out on the floor of my best friend's kitchen and stared at it.
And stared.
Then I stared some more.
Then I ate an ice cream sandwich and stared even more.
And then it hit me! I had extra bargello "tubes" that hadn't been opened yet. I could open them, halve them and add them to the side without the border! That would give me another 5 or 6 inches of width!
I spent tonight sewing those extras. Tomorrow I'll attach them to the rest of the quilt and we'll see how it looks!
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