This quilt top is one of my UFOs that I wanted to finish this year. As it turns out, it wasn't actually a completed quilt top. The borders still needed to be cut and added.
It had been so long since I last worked on this quilt, that I had forgotten exactly what the plan had been. There was far more of the Jeff Gordon fabric than the Dale Earnhardt fabric, and I needed to use the fabric for both the borders and the backing. Since the panels alternated between the two, I decided to have both represented in the borders and the backing. I didn't take a picture of it, but the backing is pieced with large cuts of the two different fabric - 18 x width of fabric for the Gordon fabric and 18 x 20-ish for the Earnhardt fabric. For some reason that I totally don't remember, I had cut off about 3 inches all along one selvage edge of the Earnhardt fabric.
Having the side borders cut wider than the top and bottom was intentional, because the quilt seemed a little oddly narrow. I decided to cut the border based on the grid-work in the fabric, so the sides are twice as wide as the top and bottom. It might would have looked a little better if I had made them a little closer together in size, but it's fine. It's not like it's going to be displayed on a wall or anything. Anyway, the quilt top ended up measuring 54 x 64.
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