A Wild Goose Chase

That's how I'd describe my quest to find a better 'star' fabric for my current project. 

This quilt is a wedding gift for a young couple.  Other than requesting blues and greens, they wanted to leave the rest up to me.  The border fabric is a Hoffman batik called Gerbera and was my inspiration for the other fabrics.  I love the background fabric and corner squares, but after making a couple of stars with the swirl print fabric, I thought the contrast was a little too harsh with the border fabric. 

So I packed up my border fabric and a couple of the swirly star blocks I'd finished and off I went to four (or was it twenty-four?) stores to find a fabric I liked better.  It didn't take long to realize I was looking for a very unusual shade of blue.  But finally, there it was, a gray-navy-blue-teal-mossy-green batik in a subtle print that I was sure would be the perfect fabric for my stars.  

Or was it?

Now I'm thinking it's too dark and not so perfect after all. 

I think I need to make a couple more stars in the new fabric before I make a final decision. 

Opinions welcome!

Me,
Jane
 

Comments

[Wendy P]

I like them both. Why not make the stars out of several kinds of blue-green batiks so it has more of a scrappy look. Then none of them is really competing with the border. And it really looks hand made, not store bought.

[Jackie Hicks]

I see it in reverse - you border appears lighter and should be the stars with one of the darker star fabrics being the border.