The debate about borders continues. This time, it’s the Acadia sunrise quilt. This is where it stands now:
I finished sewing the horizontal strips together several days ago, and I put it back up on the design wall and just could not figure out what to do next in terms of border or binding. So I went looking for opinions. Mom thinks I should just put a black binding around it as a frame. Several ladies at the quilt store agreed with her when I went there looking for inspiration and opinions. I’m not opposed to that – it was, honestly, one of the ideas that I’d had myself. But something sat wrong with me – the bottom of the image isn’t solid black, but I felt like a solid black binding without a border would frame the top nicely but blend in to the bottom too much to have any significant impact.
My guild has Slow Sew Fridays at a local library, and since I have recently lost my job and needed to sew some labels on to some of the older quilts, I went yesterday. (More on the labels later!) And of course, I brought this quilt top for opinions. The one I like best is the idea of framing it as I might frame an actual picture – with a “mat” around it, then a frame. If I were going to print the picture and frame it, I’d probably use an off-white/cream mat and a black frame. So the current idea is to see if I can find a solid(ish) cream that looks nice, and then maybe use the solid black binding. I think a trip back to the quilt store is imminent…