Step 10) Find a home for all wayward blocks pulled in step 9.
Step 11) Sew blocks together. Join rows. Add borders and finish off.
In working on this quilt, I discovered several things. If a quilt has a random placement of blocks, it's a good thing if the border does too. This is SECRET #3. Sashings and a plain border would be way too dull for this type qulit. The random look border goes hand-in-hand with this quilt. I tried several border looks:
Finally, I decided on this beautiful dark teal floral which was just a shade darker than my inner border. This is SECRET #4. The dark teal did not show up at all in the photo of my quilt but look like a gray fabric. Here's a pic of the inner and outer floral fabric:
I added yellow
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I tried several
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border fabric contrasting nicely with aqua inner border
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