Last night I completed the left flower border on the insanity quilt. This actually did not take as long as I thought it would - started on May 3 and worked on several other projects in the mean time. I usually work a little in the early morning before hubs gets up and then at night while we watch tv.
I am considering adding the right and bottom borders the same and then re-design the top border to include some applique birds based on a paper garland my daughter Jennie made for me to hang on my mantel. I decorate my mantel for the spring and summer with bird houses and birds, and this little garland is the perfect touch.
She used scrapbook paper for the bird, but I am hoping she has the pattern and I can make them with fabric to applique across the top of my insanity quilt. I sit and look at these birds across the room from where I quilt, and I guess that is my inspiration.
My insanity quilt center measures 43" x 50 1/2" and the flower border is 8 1/2" wide. So once the borders are added to all sides the quilt will measure 60" x 67 1/2" which I think is big enough, Rhonda Pearce's design for the Insanity quilt has one more border but I am thinking of leaving that border off. This is a picture I pulled off the internet. If I leave that border off, I can hang the quilt up in my living room in the Spring with my other bird decor, lol. Not to mention, this will save me from having to add another 3,815 hexies to compete that outer border. I do love her design, but I love even more the idea of adding some applique birds and using it as a wall hanging.
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