Design Wall Monday - 8/17/15

DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
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At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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On my wall today -

I finally got around to auditioning border fabrics -

After a month of personal "stuff" -

Most of which would bore you -

So I won't go into it here -

Except for the water leak -

That was a doozy - ;))

One day I reached under the bathroom sink to get a clean hand towel -

And the whole stack of hand towels and washcloths was WET -

And some of them were GROSS with black mold -

EEEWWW!!!

AND the stack of old/extra bath towels behind them was sopping WET -

EEEWWW!!!

Called the plumber and he replaced some stuff - ;))

I had noticed that the plunger thingy had broken -

But figured it just came "unhooked" -

Didn't realize that it had corroded and broken off -

Until I emptied out the towels and found the pieces - ;))

Seems that the water wasn't going down the drain -

It was coming out of the hole in the back of the one pipe - ;))

Good thing the old towels were there to soak up all of the water -

So the damage to the cabinet is minimal -

But that pretty much tells you how the month of July went for me - ;))

Now it's the middle of August!! -

My how time flies -

Whether you are having fun or not - ;))

Anyway - back to the quilty stuff -

One week I made another "I Spy" baby quilt for a neighbor's daughter -
It's a "cheater" panel -
So all I had to do was quilt in the ditch around the hexagons and the borders -
And add a binding - ;))

Here are some close-ups of the front and back - ;))

Then I pulled a charm pack of some fabrics that I had -
Samples of yardage in my stash -
And pinned them to the wall -

Trying to match colors in the piece -

And decided on the reddish one -
Not an exact match -
But close enough - I thought -

And then the next morning -
I didn't like it -
So I took it off and tossed the strips in my "String" box - ;))

I really wanted a dark purple to be the outer border -
But don't have that particular shade in my stash -
So chose a navy blue -
To echo the darker stripes in the piece -
Cut those -
And added some "focus" fabric squares for the corners -

Then I realized that the navy blue in the piece was outlined in white -
So maybe the inner border should be white -
But the light purple looks good, too - ;))

Question(s) -

How do YOU audition border fabrics? -

And how do YOU decide which one to use??



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -