Thank you everyone. The reason I wanted to use borders is for some reason I started getting bored with the string blocks. Have no idea why though. I ended up making a 2 inch white inner border, 1 inch jewel-toned purple, 2 inch orange, and then finally a 5 inch outside border of the purple. Again, thank you for all of your wonderful suggestions. Hopefully I'll have it bound soon and can share the final result with you.