Great stories about fabric out, friends, even if there are little chapters in the narrative arc of fabric in as well! :-)
The mitered borders have been finished but I'm not happy with the backing idea I had so I think this one will be left as a flimsy until I can figure out a solution that works. I'd like to say I will use stash but at this point it's unlikely just because I don't have that many larger stash pieces and I already know most of them won't work for a backing (for my level of expectations :-)).
Two stacks of "play nicely together" fabrics have been returned to boxes - neither of them got me excited enough to commit, although I do have them put away together so maybe they will be revisited in the future. I might need to take a bit of a break - another attempt to find "fabric friends" from a couple of boxes of smaller scraps led to a huge mess and a decent dose of overwhelm/frustration. Doesn't mean I didn't enjoy playing with the fabric, though! Tee hee!