Now I Need Some Help, Please

[dolphin]

I'm back to working on the top I just finished. From what I could find at the library, I think it is called a postage stamp pattern. I'll just call it a postage stamp quilt to keep my quilts seperate.

I have the pale yellow fabric and I also have some dusty rose and I have lots of pale blue(kinda gray).

I have decided to do a 3" border in yellow and a 3" border of pale blue and use the dusty rose for the binding and the pale blue for the backing as I have gobs of it and....I like it, lol.

Does that sound right? Or should I make one of the borders bigger than the other? This is where I decide how big I want my quilt right? Should I just quit worrying about it and just cut? LOL

Here is another question. I know it is ok to piece the binding but, is it ok to piece the border? I have enough fabric not to have to piece it but I would have to cut off of the length to do the sides. The top and bottom I can just cut from the width.

Does that make since? I'm just trying to figure out the best way to save on fabric because I have another smaller project I want to do and that was all of that particular color of yellow that Walmart had.

Thanks for any help.

[dolphin]

I just read where CJ posted on Michelle's post about Dave's quilt. I like the advice you gave her CJ so I'm going to go see what that would look like.

[homesteadmamma]

Yes you can piece the border and the binding. If you piece the border, just make sure you try to make it even on both sides, kwim. (eg. you'd have 2 pieces of border for each side and you'd have the seam in the middle of the border, rather than a piece added on at the top). Hope that explains it.

Another way to do it is if you don't have enough but almost enough, then you can make a block at each corner. That way, you'd have a block, a strip, a block on the top, bottom and the exact same thing for the sides.

To make it even more complicated but it really isn't, is instead of piecing the border in a couple pieces, do exactly as I told you in the above paragraph with a block in the middle of the border and at each top.

Just a couple other ways to do it if you don't want to piece the border.

Can't wait to see how it looks when its done.

[dolphin]

Thank you CJ. I would have never thought of doing the block piecing. That sound like a neat idea.