Originally Posted by
paoberle
Sew four strips, one of each color, together to form a block. Turn your block 90 degrees and cut it into strips. You now have strips of four blocks, one of each color. Sew these strips together, end to end, to form your border strip.
This is the way to do it easily, but all your blocks will be the same. You could turn them to make it different, or you could make two, three or four of the strip sets in different order, cut them and sew them together alternately.