I continued to work in dribs and drabs to get another border on Old Town. This one is a pieced checkerboard border.
I considered stopping work on this quilt at the plain border. I decided to soldier on because I already had made hundreds of 4 Patches.
I am amazed at how different the quilt looks after adding that checkerboard border. I know I only photographed half of the quilt. I stood and looked at it for a long time trying to figure out why that one border made such a difference.
That one additional border really does change it quite a lot. Is it because of the extension of the block complexity after the small pause of the solid border?
I guess? I don’t really know, but it changes the look completely and I think it even looks different from the one in the pattern/clues.