whoa....I was a chunker and didn't even know it! I even planned my border design when I did one (mostly just go for over-all quilting and have gotten away from borders more and more...preferring just to have borderless quilts) .....to be able to include the borders in the pass I was on so I didn't have to turn the quilt. I think I started doing it this way because I had a 10 foot frame at first and could not turn the larger quilts on that frame....now that I have a 12 foot frame, I could on the size quilts I make.