Making quilt decisions

Top of the morning quilty buds!  Thank you to everyone for the well wishes to momma.  It'll make her day when I show her all the prayers being sent her way.  The plan was to show her the comments yesterday before they put in her chemo port but wouldn't you know it I've caught a horrible cold.  We decided it's best for me to stay away from her until my cold is gone or until they absolutely need my assistance.  So I've purchases some lovely surgical masks just in case.

The progress on the lily quilt.   She's still nameless even with all the great suggestions on my last post.  If you missed my post about this block you can see it here and find measurements for making your own Lily block.   I will not be doing a tutorial or pattern for this quilt due to momma's illness.

Right now ideas of how to finish are being tossed around.

Leave it as is and bind it.

The decision was made to leave out the applique but I could still add a little.

Or maybe I could do a fancy border.

Add some yo-yo's

Or go hog wild by adding the leaves, border and yo-yo's.

Decisions, decisions, decisions!  

I'm linking up with some great Linky Parties today.  Hop on over to see more quilt inspirations and link up your projects also!  You don't need a blog to link up, most linky parties allow other social media pictures!

Can I get a WHOOP WHOOP@Confessionsofafabricaddict

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~ Lea Anne ~

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Border talk

If you haven't heard there's a new linky party going on!  Val at Val's Quilting Studio has been partying for the past few weeks with a new theme every Tuesday.  You don't even need to write a post just link up an old one.  This weeks theme is Birthdays and Borders.  All my quilts have some type of border so I've plenty to share.  Instead of linking to several different post why not just put them all in one!

This has to be one of my favorite borders.  A friend taught me this technique a couple of years ago, you can find a tutorial here on my blog on the tutorials tab.  

 It makes sorta a flange but with a twist. This quilt is currently being quilted.

 Borders can make a quilt, don't you think?  This pattern is called Cherries Jubilee.  Any other border would not have given this quilt the same movement.  

 I designed this quilt last year.  The borders gave me a fits.  Nothing seemed right.  Then I had an epiphany!  Fussy cut the border.  It almost gives an appliqued look to the border.

The quilt below falls in both birthdays and borders.  This was made for my dad's birthday.  I called it Four Directions.   Alot of research went into every design element.  I won't bore you with the details other than the borders are applique.   The feathers were raw edge, but instead of taking the fusible webbing to the edge I left a quarter inch around the edge unfused, stitched about a quarter inch from the edge, causing the feathers to fray and look feathery when washed!

 Another great border technique that I learned from Erin Russeks Blog.  She also designed the quilt block(block 2 from MY Tweets BOM)

 Another one of my designs below.  I thought the quilt looked boring until I added the applique in the border.  

 Love the Dresden borders on this one, this was fast and easy, and a very dramatic finish! 

A commissioned quilt uses the Erin Russek tutorial in the center, and then a simple scallop border.  I'm not a big fan of scallops, because I hate the math part and the binding.  But it's what the customer wanted so....

 Another one I designed.   After weeks of struggling with what type of border I decided to the classic Log Cabin worked great with the classic Lone Star.  

Well there you have it several different ideas for borders.  Hope I've inspired some creativity!

~ Lea Anne ~

Today's Freebie  A block border tutorial from Twin Fibers

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