Everything is Always Rosie: Finishing touches on latest quilt

I find myself adding more and more border fabric to my most recent quilt. Luckily I remembered that having it machine quilted will cause it to lose a few inches so I have been adding more to it to keep it close to a queen size quilt. (I have used double thickness of batting for my last two quilts and plan to do the same again with this one. I find one layer of batting is not warm and cozy enough.)

At first, I thought 1 row of border fabric would suffice but I quickly realized that I needed a second and that I had a lot of left over fabric which I could use up. I like making borders of long strips of the fabric I use in my quilts. It makes the quilt seem more "patchwork" and in fact, I purposely cut the 5" wide strips to different lengths to achieve that look. I have always been a fan of the more "patchwork" type quilts that aren't perfect; ones that don't seem like they have been meticulously plotted and planned. (Although this particular quilt was very time consuming and required a lot of cutting, I couldn't resist the colour combination of pinks and greens, my favourite ever since I was a little girl).

You will also notice that I did not mitre the corners, as the pattern suggested. I simply sewed on lengths to the sides first and then to the tops (or the other way!)

I now find myself wanting to add a third border row. Below are pictures of the quilt so far and close-ups of the last border row fabric and also the backing flannel I bought for the quilt. I usually like to buy fabric from the clearance section of the fabric store. Paying full price for fabric is very expensive so I love the challenge of finding just the right fabric for a quilt, in the clearance section. (This quilt I am making now, is a real novelty for me. I have never bought a kit before to make a specific quilt.)

Here is the quilt so far:

The fabric with the music and roses was not part of the kit but I found it during the summer and couldn't resist it as it has my name printed within it and the colours matched the quilt colours perfectly.

Here is my name in the fabric.(above)

Here is the pink fabric I will use for the last (I think) border row. It is from a different fabric line than the quilt. (It is Imaginarium from Camelot Fabrics).

I like the vines and polka dots. I think it will work well.

Here is the flannel for the backing. I wanted something light pink to go with the mostly green fabrics on the front of the quilt. It was $4.98/metre in the clearance section. I really like the daisies even though the green centres do not exactly match the greens of the front fabrics.