I learned a lot about mitering borders after doing four red 'picture frame' borders at each corner!
Quilted it with SID.

beautiful! You did a fabulous job!

Looks great and so snuggly.

Beautiful!

...and a colour coordinated cat! F x

That turned out beautifully. Great job!

Such a beautiful quilt. You have done such a lovely job. Love the "scrappiness". It appears co-ordinated :)

VERY nice, is it machine peiced or paper peiced? I have always want to make one of these.

Love your colours too

Stunning and the pussycat too!

You did a wonderful job on it. Tumbling Blocks is one of my many 'want-to-try' patterns. It looks great as a scrappy. Thanks for sharing.

Love that quilt. the border of blocks just makes the quilt

How awesome!

See you have an able bodied cat for quality control. Nice quilt and precious cat.

Absolutely gorgeous!

That is the first scrappy I've really liked...very pretty

absolutely beautiful and the cat is gorgeous as well :)

Very pretty & I love the cat. :D

WOW WOW, that is beautiful!!! If it is looking for a new home I will be glad to send you my address :lol:

Very pretty! Kitty likes it, too! You did a wonderful job. That is a great pattern!

Beautiful quilt and beautiful cat!!!!!!!!!!

WOW :thumbup: :thumbup: So beautiful. And those borders really set off your beautiful work. Amazing.

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Beautiful!!! I love the border blocks, wonderful addition :D:D:D

I love it.

Did you sew your inner border strips together (black/red/black/red/black) and sew them on like ONE mitered piece of fabric instead of 5 pieces of fabric?

Oh my, that is very pretty. What piecing method did you use? What ever it was, you did it perfectly!

Beautiful! I am usually not a huge fan of scrappy quilts, although I have made a few. I love yours!

WOW!!! That is a showstopper!! :-) :thumbup:

Wonderful work :!: :!:

Your bed looks very similar to ours :-P

Beautiful quilt! You did a fantastic job!

Ditto. Like the cat, too.

I've seen a lot of quilts with pretty centers and then....somehow as if they got bored, the remainder of bed size quilts is plain, boring, or ugly. You went the whole nine yards!! This is one of my favorite patterns, but since I have never paper pieced, I hadn't considered trying it. You make me tempted!!
Jeannie in GA

oooh! I really like your quilt. I especially like that you used black; it makes it really stand out.

I love it! Gorgeous!

Beautiful quilt. I am interested to see your answer about how you did the borders.

This is beautiful! I love how you put the row of blocks in the border as well.

That is really nice!! It's a great idea for those scraps, never gave this pattern a thought! :thumbup:

Very pretty. :thumbup:

This is a gorgeous scrappy. Very sophisticated looking.

You did a fantastic job on it!

Thank you all for the encouraging words! Having made only two quilts since I got addicted to this art form a year ago, the attagirls are inspiring and appreciated.

This tumbling blocks is pieced in strips (Marci Baker's "Not Your Grandmother's Tumbling Blocks").
Also, here is a youtube video about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpSETMbws4

I added the red 'picture frames' and the single row of blocks around the overhang border cuz, being king size, it just seemed to need something to set off those top blocks and break up all that overhang length.