Well I finally got all the blocks sewed together and the first border around it..and so far...no more Jack the ripper..so if he is missing again..he is not here...and nor do I want him here lol. These are the borders my DIL picked out..she is a very out door type person. She loves hunting, fishing, ATVing, snowmobiling etc.. What size should the middle border be? The first and last will be 1 3/4 inch.