Purple/Blue Quilt

 This current quilt challenge was to use the center sashing fabric that never seems to fit into any other quilt or project.  It's a very pale lavender with tiny silver sparkles.

I cut  squares from my purple and blue stash drawers.  Stitched them with the sashing in a staggered design.

The sashing piece dictated that the quilt size would be a baby quilt.  However, there are no babies in my life.  So I proceeded to expand it.

I wanted that striped border sash to be the binding, but it ended up where it is.  Now I only had 11" left.  Not enough to use for binding this 61" X 58" quilt.  I could not find the purple colorway for that fabric line anywhere.  

It sat around since mid February waiting for me to find a binding fabric.  I can be so stubborn.  I was so dead set with the wave stripe.  I knew I would not be satisfied with any other fabric.

It finally dawned on me in the wee hours of the morning to figure out how many strips I needed to go around the quilt, cut them at whatever width needed and then add strips of the backing fabric to the stripe for the binding!

And the quilt got finished.  I think the dual fabric binding made for a fun binding look on the quilt back.  I will definitely consider that binding style on future quilts and projects.