I chose a fabric for the top and bottom borders of this quilt, cut them and sewed them on and also cut the binding strips from the same fabric. I chose the backing, a 60" wide fabric hand dyed by Melody Johnson about 15-20 years ago. Since my only Christmas party is on the 21st I hope to do some finishing of quilts in the last 10 days of the year. I think this will be one of them.