thank you everyone and a big THANK YOU to Jeanne for posting a picture for me.
the whole quilt is appliqued to the border, the only sane way I could figure out how to border it.
I was not going to add a few more rows of black. to crazy for me.
a big thank you to CHarisma for the quilting. really added to it
this one took me about 2 yrs. i'd work on it for awhile and take a month or two off. the other one, which is 1" the GFG, quilted by Charisma also, took 2 months, day and night to do. It's also about twice the size of this one. this one is 3/4" hexies.
Thanks everyone for the compliments, and to Jeanne for posting and Charisma for quilting.
the other one just needs the binding, so that will be posted in about a week.