Book Border Design
Ariano Waiker
Could you have the list item be a transparent rectangle as the main frame of it, then a border just inside that, and then a white rectangle inside the border. That way the custom visibility may be less likely to affect the layouts.
One of the easiest ways to quilt the sashing or border spaces on your quilts is to fill the area with evenly spaced straight lines. I used walking foot quilting to fill in the first border of my Heart Medallion Checkerboard with straight lines. Learn how to quilt along with me in this new beginner quilting tutorial:
Quilting straight lines really is the easiest quilting design you can choose for your quilts. I used the edge of my walking foot as a guide to evenly space the lines 1/2-inch apart. The walking foot made this much easier to quilt evenly and straight because the foot and the machine's feed dogs fed the quilt forward evenly.
To make sure the lines remained evenly spaced, I stitched in the ditch on both sides of the sashing area, then quilted 1/2-inch inside, then lined up my foot in the center of the 1 inch space remaining and quilted right through the middle. It's easy for the lines to veer off and the more lines you quilt, the more likely this will be to happen.
I also quilted straight lines in the border too, but I wasn't as careful about quilting evenly and didn't mark any guidelines before getting started. Unfortunately my straight lines in the corner ended up getting a bit off and once the quilt was squared for the binding, this became evident:
However, I still love this quilt and this weird corner isn't a deal breaker for me! I'm certainly not going to rip out these lines of quilting in order to quilt it square with the binding. In fact, this border makes me smile - that's what you get for not marking the design and quilting it more evenly Leah!
To me, straight lines are very much like Stippling - an important design to keep in your quilting toolbox. Designs like this are utilitarian, but also essential for adding simple texture to your quilts so the other designs, fabrics, and motifs can stand out.
So even though straight lines are simple and easy to quilt, they're still a very important design to use on your quilts. Another way to look at it as a neutral clothes in your closet. You can't wear flaming bright colors from head to toe or you'll look like a clown.
The same goes for quilting: you can quilt intense designs all over your quilts, but the end result may end up looking messy and garish. By using straight lines to break up different designs or areas of the quilt, you simplify the quilt and draw attention to those special details.
If you enjoyed this series, consider taking a quilting class with me! We have created many online quilting workshops to guide you through all the steps to creating beautiful quilts. You will love taking a quilt workshop because you get to see each step of the quilting process with great instructions!
When the UK left the European Union (EU), it had the opportunity to re-imagine how it manages its borders. My team, called the Presence at the Border review team, was established to work on one of the many commitments in the UK Border Strategy.
My team was tasked to help the government by creating an efficient and effective border to serve not only the needs of the people and businesses who use it, but also benefit the frontline border staff at ports by improving outdated paper-based processes and procedures in relation to goods movements (not passengers) and recommending new innovations and practices - without compromising border security.
We undertook extensive engagement with border users and industry, researched international best practice, undertook various visits to ports (across Great Britain and in the Netherlands), spoke with all departments and agencies with a border role and responsibility and we embedded staff at Heathrow Airport and the maritime ports of Immigham and Southampton for 10 weeks.
The research evidence obtained enabled us to identify that our existing border processes, structure and culture currently prevent us from becoming the most effective border in the world, highlighting the following challenges:
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When designing a perennial meadow I look for five appropriate plants that will grow together in the same situation. Scale, colour and form all play their part as does their time of flowering, but it is essential to try and match their competitive nature to avoid one of them taking over the scheme over time. Together these plants form the planting schemes theme.
The planting scheme for this grass border, following my method for designing perennial methods, gives the planting densities of each species in plants per square meter or yard. As shown above on a plan some 3 meters by 2 meters you will be able to see the random spacing I have elected to use in this example.
Hopefully this suggestion for new grass border demonstrates the thinking process I follow when creating any perennial meadow planting scheme and will inspire you to create something similar for yourself.
Given the image below, that contains some graphic elements, which design style do you think that best describes the image? Can I say that the design used is Victorian? Or is it baroque? Art-deco maybe?
Stumperies are another design feature you could use in a shady border or area. A stumpery is a group of tree stumps, logs and associated wood, set out in a sculptural way to show off the beauty of the roots, bark or other aspects of a dead tree.
This interview with Stephen Ryan of the Horti-Culturalists YouTube channel will help you understand more about how to choose plants for the shady parts of the garden. And every garden has shade or partial shade!
A great reminder that the shady places keep a garden going while the hot sunny plants come in a blaze of glory and then go. I love shady areas and love shade-loving plants. I hugely recommend who sell every plant you need for shade.
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During the onset of colonization, European powers preferentially dealt with African local leaders and chieftaincies. Colonial powers employed underhand mechanisms in territorial acquisition and boundary making such as deceit, fraud, intimidation, and bribery. Moreover, colonial powers utilized various techniques to influence African leaders and obtain resource rich land.[1] The Berlin Conference legitimized the partition of Africa; colonialists designed regional maps without providing any notification to the local African rulers, and made treaties among colonial powers to avoid resource competition. However, many errors were made due to their superficial knowledge of the continent and undeveloped maps in existence.
Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister in 1906, demonstrated this arbitrary and under-informed approach at the signing of the Anglo-French convention on the Nigeria-Niger boundary in 1906, when he said: "We [the British and the French] have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps were no white man's foot ever trod: we have been giving away mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered by the small impediments that we never knew exactly where the mountains and rivers and lakes were."[2] This statement helps us to understand how colonial powers designed artificial African boundaries without knowledge of the land and local communities.
European powers completed cartographic surveys of territories through boundary commissions from 1900-1930, which allowed total control of colonies. However, these focused solely on land control and disregarded the impacts of partitioning on ethnic groups. Artificial borders split many closely related ethnic groups into different colonial regions. In the Horn of Africa, for instance, they split Somalis into French Somaliland, British Somalia, Italian Somalia, Ethiopian Somalia, and the Somali region of northern Kenya. Such colonial borders have massive effects on Somali people who share a common culture, a similar way of life, and the same religion, but live as separate citizens of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya. Similarly, the Afar people of Ethiopia were split amongst Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, and the Anyuaa and Nuer were split between Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Following artificial border designs, African communities could not move freely in their daily activities and nomadic practices, which inflicted economic hardship and social inconvenience. Changing the lifestyle and structural systems of African communities negatively affected their traditional life, administrative structures, and economic well-being. This deprived African borderland communities of economic opportunity by hindering their movements, and forcing them to live differently than their traditional life. For example, many Africans are pastoralist and nomadic people that need vast land for grazing and water. However, artificial borders limited borderland people to herding on limited land and forced them into resource competition and confrontation due to limited mobility with other borderland peoples.
Besides improperly designed borders, European colonial powers employed "divide and rule," "direct rule," and "assimilation" policies, which forced the loss of social norms, identity, and social order for Africans. Moreover, these policies instigated conflicts among local people, dividing them even further, and consequently strengthening colonial power. Doing so helped gradually develop hostile relations among borderland people, and post-independent African governments and political elites used this division for political means. Some political elites in Africa affiliate more along ethnic lines, and play crucial roles in fueling tensions and escalating political disenfranchisement. For instance, the Lou-Nuer of South Sudan and the Jikany-Nuer of Ethiopia are the same ethnic group, and live along the Ethiopia-South Sudan border, yet they are considered as two distinct ethnic groups with different nationalities and have developed hostility through resource competition. Despite the effects of colonization and artificial borders on borderland communities, African political leaders have not alleviated these problems but rather used them as political instruments.
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