I'm trying to make my son a quilt for Christmas. My plan was for a center panel that was big and then borders with cornerstones. The center would be this fabric here: http://www.thefabricfinder.com/MichaelMillerRoadworkGreen1.JPG

The borders were going to be this one: http://www.thefabricfinder.com/MichaelMillerConstructionStripeC2032A.JPG

The stripes for the borders run the length of the fabric. Only problem is I didn't buy a long enough cut. If my border includes all four of the stripes in the border fabric I can only get 3 sets of the four stripes. I don't want to cut down the size of the center panel because it would be too small for him I think. I can't figure out a way to split the stripe designs up because they are all different widths. Unless I split the top and bottom borders. Would that look too funny? They's be a smaller width than the sides and the top slightly smaller than the bottom. Or I could try to find a solid to coordinate for the top and bottom borders.

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I'd find a cooridinating solid (or simple print) for the other 2 sides.

I did that once with a quilt (bought too little of the border fabric). I wasn't making that quilt - someone else did it for me - and she cut it into equal lengths, and alternated that fabric with shorter lengths of a neutral dark fabric. I think it looks great! Maybe with yours, that "neutral dark fabric" could be brown (to go with the dump truck's dirt color). Another way you could do it, depending on how much of that border fabric you have, would be to make all the *corners* that neutral-dark-fabric. Would you have enough of the border fabric, if, for example, you used a different fabric for 6-10" at each corner?

My plan was already to do another fabric for the corners already. I have a yellow and black stripe fabric that look like contruction stripes. I'm thinking I might use those for the corners and maybe for the middle of the tops and bottoms too. What do you think? If that is a bad idea then I guess I'll head back to the fabric store.

I think any of the options presented would work well. I think using the yellow/black as you suggested would be fine. So would making the top and sides different sizes.

My plan was already to do another fabric for the corners already. I have a yellow and black stripe fabric that look like contruction stripes. I'm thinking I might use those for the corners and maybe for the middle of the tops and bottoms too. What do you think? If that is a bad idea then I guess I'll head back to the fabric store.I think it sounds like a *fine* idea! Show us a picture when it's done, if you can!