Bucky Borders

The Bucky Badger quilt is coming together really quickly, I knew that it would.  I am now working on the very last border, and the cornerstones.  Here's how it looks.  Not a bad week's work!

The outer border will be black, 9", with a thin red strip in the center.  A 9" border seems wide to me, but I want to put those same stars in the corners as cornerstones. Those stars are 9" blocks, so that dictates the size of the border.  I suppose I could make smaller stars though....  I'll have to think about this.  I'm not sure what I'll use for binding yet, I'll see what I have when I get that far.  Probably not black though, Red would look nice against the black, so that's a good possibility.

I'm not really crazy about the Badger prints next to that grayish border.  I wish I would have reversed the colors, black on the inner rail (surrounding Bucky) and the gray on the outside but with a black border.  Too late to change it now.  I had a hard time (not really "hard" just time consuming) matching the stripes in the plaid.  Things are out of sync in a couple of places, but the white stripes match, so maybe it's not that noticeable.  In order to line up the white plaids so that the vertical lines would match in the corners with the vertical lines on the side borders, I had to fudge a bit.  The lines were offset about an inch.  So I took tiny tucks in the top and bottom borders, about an eighth of an inch or so, next to the Wisconsin "W." There was a little wider space next to the vertical white plaid line at that point. I could remove some of that extra space and it wasn't noticeable in the overall design.  Sewing an eighth of an inch tuck next to that wider space removed a quarter of an inch from the width of the border.  Doesn't sound like much, but doing it 4 times removed that offset inch, and my vertical lines could match up!  I'm pretty pleased with that.  I will quilt over those extra seam line when I quilt this and camouflage my fudging even more!!!