I have managed to add another couple of borders to the Mariner's quilt. The colours were starting to make the quilt rather dark, so the ships border lightens it up. I added broderie perse cockle shells to the corner blocks of the border. The blue in the outside border is the same tone as the blue in the compass. I am planning for the next border to return to somewhat darker blocks. I have done all the rotary cutting for a border of pieced Ohio stars. I'm not sure they will work in this quilt, so will piece one side ...and if not, may go for smaller broken dishes blocks instead. I think there will only be one further border after this. The quilt will probably finish at about 66 inches square.
Yahhhhhhhhh! My Nov\Dec issue of Quiltmania has arrived this morning. The material pack arrived last week...so now I'm able to start the final part of the Di Ford BOM!
I'm now torn as to which quilt to work on...but I think I'll start the fabric cutting for the Di Ford quilt. It contains 216 EPP diamonds, so I'll be working on this for a while!
Decisions, decisions!
Happy quilting!
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