Border opinion needed
Hello all,
I'm really bad at visualizing things, so I thought I'd reach out to you amazing people for some advice.
I have this quilt center constructed. The pattern calls for a 1" border then a 5" border. I plan to make the 1" border black (a no-brainer for me). I have a fair few scraps left over from the bright fabrics in the quilt center, and was trying to figure out how to/whether to incorporate them into the 5" border (and then finish off with black binding). Would it be too much, do you think, to construct a scrappy 5" border using the same bright fabrics as the center? I was thinking about piano keys, but I don't have quite that much fabric, so I would really have to make the border out of long-ish strips (about 18") of each fabric in order to eke out the scraps around the whole quilt.
For reference, the blocks are 9.5" square (finished, as you see them), and the bias strips are about 1" wide.
Any tips, ideas, insights, inspirations?
Thank you!!