I had the bright idea - enter maniacal laughter here - to combine two quilt patterns, a rather cheesy symbol of two people's whose lives have come together. The obvious was my beloved log cabin pattern to symbolize the good ole boy my friend married:
The second was a friendship chain, to symbolize what my friend has met to me all these years:
Today I put it all together and realized - holy crap, I need a border!
In normal times this wouldn't be a big deal, except of course I realize this after having put the quilt together and also, I did good in getting the inner squares and outer squares nearly the same size so I didn't have to do anything extremely peculiar to put them together...and now I was throwing a spanner in the works by adding a border!
After spending an hour or so taking the outer log cabin blocks off - and wondering if I truly liked my friend all that much and when the answer came back as 'yes', wondering why - I added the inner border and was delighted to find that I could use some of the leftover squares for corner pieces. Go me. First I use fabric mostly from my stash and now I use left over squares.
And then I added the log cabin blocks. In a corner I refuse to show - and a corner I will tell my friend to always tuck out of sight - I had to jerry-rig a mishmash of squares to fill in the gap. Though I refuse to show it, the result isn't all that bad and most people probably won't even notice. But I will. (Stink eye)
This is not the bad corner, but an awesome corner instead:
In the end, though it's been a long frustrating day, the quilt came out beautifully. The border makes it, the corners are great and I am damn proud of it.
And this is what it looks like right now, hanging quartered on my craft room wall. I'm going to enjoy looking at this one for a while. :)
