Ladies (and Gents), I'm seeking advice once more. I'm making a Sampler Quilt to hone skills I either haven't tried yet or sharpening ones I'm still quite weak on and so I decided to finish this quilt with a scalloped border. I'm just over half done with the FMQ for the quilt and will be ready to do the borders by the weekend. Should I use a straight or curved stencil for the FMQ on the outside borders, considering the scalloped borders. I've never done scalloped borders so I just don't know which would be better to use. Any thoughts?

I would use a curved stencil to follow the scallop.

http://www.junetailor.com/Creativity...FancyFrame.htm
http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponlin...lay.asp?i=9045
http://www.quilterswarehouse.com/P-7...treasures.aspx
http://www.calicospiceshop.com/index...id/0/id/267873

I've made my own. Measure the length then divide by a number that will make sense to you and use paper to cut one scallop to the length. Example 1: Your quilt is 52 inches long...divide by 10 to get 5 scallops 10 inches long. You can adjust the center-most scallop to fit the extra two inches from the example.
Example 2: Your quilt is 74 inches wide...divide by 7 to get 10 scallops 7 inches long and add a four inch point (or scallop) in the center to fill in the left over inches.

Oh, thanks, but it wasn't the scallops I'm having trouble with. Those are already marked and set to have the bias binding applied to the marks. I just wasn't sure how to quilt that border. I didn't know if a straight stencil would look nice or a curved one to follow the curves of the scallops.