Thanks for all the suggestions. After staring all day and trying some of the ideas I decided to stick to the original plan and just finish putting on the strips with 9p corners and bind. Although it looks like a ton of leftover fabric I wouldn't have enough to do more rows.

What a beautiful quilt!! I love it. Ok - here goes .... while I use piano borders on many quilts - I am not sure that I would not use one on this quilt. If I wanted to increase the size to cover the mattress I would go simple as I would not want to draw my eye from the quilt center. I might do something like this

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Betty, that looks awesome!

Thank you. Finished attaching the borders, working on a hopefully unique back.