Here is my completed top. I machine bind my quilts, and knew I'd be loosing points that way, so added a narrow lt blue border around the outside.
I didn't want to deal with sewing all the borders on to the quilt individually, so I sewed them all together first. It takes a bit to figure out the corners, but felt that was easier then wrestling the quilt around the machine and ironing board after each border.
This also makes me appreciate my LA - having a 12' long table for pinning on the border. I pinned and sewed one side at a time. Seems if I try to pin more, I end up knocking half the pins out before I get to the other side, or I'm constantly getting poked by pins.
I'm going with the red for the binding, DH and DD like it better (so do I). DD said this would be very popular colors for her area - GA.