I'm betwixt and between on how to border this lap quilt. Wide or narrow inner border? Floral or gold outer border? The print has some olive green in it, and I could even go with a tiny olive green print (not shown). BTW, this camera has a yellow tint, so the floral has an off-white background, not yellowish as the photo seems to indicate. Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

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HI BB.

I think the gold border is very strong. Could you play with the floral and the olive green - perhaps adding another narrow stripe after the red and a broader border to finish? The gold might make a nice binding to tie it all in.

Thanks. Perhaps like this one. I also like your idea of using the gold as the binding.

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Well, the deed is done. I agree that the gold was just "too much", and after I lived with the second arrangement for a couple of hours, decided the floral made it all too busy, so resorted to some tone on tone olive green I had. I'll put a gold binding on it after it is quilted, which hopefully will take away the "Christmas" effect of red-orange and green next to each other. Thanks for your input.

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I think that looks just fine! I really like the outer border. I'm not getting a Christmas feeling from it. It amazes me how quickly you can sew up quilt tops!
Heidi

I love the color you used for the border. I do not think it looks like christmas at all. I think the gold would make a great binding to tie it all in.

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That looks great, it really pops!

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Thank you for your responses -- so glad the red and green together doesn't appear Christmassy to you all. I'm so enjoying the creativity of doing the layout and piecing of the tops. But I really need to stop and learn how to quilt the darn things. I keep postponing doing that, so I have a bunch of lap sized tops all done but have never actually finished a quilt. My house is being taken over by UFOs!

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It looks great! I'm like you too--love to do the tops, but keep putting off the quilting. I just finished up quilting 4 tops though, so that is a relief to have them done.

It looks great and I don't think it looks Christmasy.

Ooh, that worked out nicely! Not Christmassy at all.

Yes, that looks great. Gold is also a Christmas color. For the binding you could easily use black. If not black, then the blue that is already in the quilt.

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I like how that turned out. The colors are perfect together. I would probably use the green as the binding so it doesn't take away form the rest of the quilt.