Borders on Quilter's Quotes Quilt

I finally finished all those little 4-patches for the border around my Quilter's Quotes Quilt, and got them stitched on, along with a narrow white border so I wouldn't have to deal with all those seams when it's time to put the binding on someday in the future!  The white border doesn't show against the white design wall in the picture, but it is there and will show with the binding is on.  While all those 30's fabrics were still out, I decided to go ahead and make the pieced binding so it will be ready when that time comes.   I had just enough of the dark navy to put in the corners, which ties a bit to the dark navy squares in the middle of the quilt.  That fabric truly is from the 30's repro fabrics, but it almost seems out of place in the center, so I thought the corners would help tie things together maybe. 

If you click twice, maybe you can read the top quotes here.

These are the lower quotes.

Binding Preview; of course, it will be only half that wide finished.

It took me longer to make that checkerboard border than to make the entire center at the retreat!  The binding wasn't difficult, but it too took more time.  Now I've got to decide on a backing, which will delay a finish a bit.  

I'm still trying to get life back to normal, whatever that is.  I pulled weeds and grass in the rose garden this morning while it was actually cooler.  I hope to finish it quickly in the morning before it get too hot.  I watered a bit today, so they should pull up easier.  

Then I will have no excuse to keep me from doing a little housecleaning before I get started on quilting again.  I'm not sure what will be next.  I need to actually "quilt" something!  I'm still working on hand stitching  the binding on the back of My Blue Stars while watching TV at night.  Will probably get that finished tomorrow; didn't get it done in July!  Oh dear me!  I just this moment realized I haven't made a label for it!  I'm glad I have already stitched that last corner down!

I've really enjoyed reading lost of nice blogs lately; sorry I haven't always taken time to comment.  I'll try to do better.

---"Love"