I like a very narrow strip to use as a "stop" border, and then put a wider border on.
I made a six inch border of very large floral, but cut off 1 1/4 inch and put a white strip in there.
The border was going around a white sashing of two inches. (These are finished sizes now.) Then comes 3/4 inch of the large floral, 3/4 inch of white and 4 3/4 inch of the large floral. The binding was the large floral also, so it went right to the edge. Looks "smashing". Breaking up the floral with that white strip looked great. A few years later I did another one just like that.
Last edited by maviskw; 03-26-2014 at 10:44 AM.