Back to the Blue!

I have enjoyed working on my Something Blue quilt, and had finished the quilt as it is shown in the kit.  It's beautiful!

It measures only 71" x 71", which I think is on the "smallish" size.  I like bigger quilts!  So I have devised a plan to add a border around the quilt, maybe like a 1" inner border and a 5" outer border, adding 12" to the quilt, so it would finish off at around 83" square.  Much better.  

Alas, I do not have enough fabric left over in the scraps to accomplish this.  The kit was very generous with it's fabric, you could easily recover from an error if you cut a strip too large (or 7 strips, which is what I did!  Oops!)  So I emailed the designer and asked her if I could buy extra fabric.  She answered immediately and sent me a link to a quilt shop in New Hampshire that sells her fabrics.  I went to the website and found the fabric I needed and ordered it!  Hooray!  Now I just have to wait for it to arrive!