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Finished piecing the top to the Numbers quilt today. Yay! {finished version here}
This is where I need help: I think I need to add a border… maybe the IKEA numbers fabric (which has a white ground). Would that look weird? If not that, then what? A solid? (What color?) A pattern? (What type?) Or should I just skip the border??
This is only my second quilt (my first, a rag quilt, made several years ago), so any ideas would be much appreciated!!
OTHER INFO:
• The binding will be a small stripe that incorporates all of the colors in the quilt.
• Inspired by this, this, and this created by stitchindye. (LOVE her work — if only I could free motion quilt like her!)
• Centers of wonky/improv style log cabins were fussy cut from an IKEA duvet cover (fabric is TERRIBLE quality and I had to add fusible interfacing to back it). I was going to use one large piece of the IKEA numbers fabric as backing for the quilt, but since the quality is so bad, I won’t. Instead the backing will be pieced but I’ll still incorporate large pieces of the IKEA numbers fabric (as large as I can go with the fusible interfacing).
This quilt is being made to go into my girls’ primary-colored playroom.
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Looking at the top now, I don’t like the placement of the brown squares — they are too close together. It took me a LONG time — more than a hour total? — to figure out where to place the blocks and it looks like I goofed. If you notice, each number is represented twice, in a big and small version. The big and small versions of the numbers alternate throughout the quilt.
Meaning, in the first row, it’s a BIG two, small five, BIG zero, small eight.
Second row: small seven, BIG one, small three, BIG four.
It was tricky getting the placement of the blocks so that two colors didn’t touch, so that two of the same numbers weren’t touching, so that the same color didn’t appear in the same row or column more than once. I was about to pull my hair out, then settled on this iteration. Looks like I should have worked on it more!
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More photos of this quilt here.
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