When I came back from the "Curves and Composition with Yukatas" workshop a few weeks ago, the four quadrants of my quilt top had been sewn together but not finished with a border. Borrowing an idea I had seen in one of Patricia's quilts, I decided a square in a square 3" block would use up some of the scraps, plus add a bit of a "glitzy necklace" frame around the butterfly. The idea was to encircle the 1" jewel coloured squares inside a navy border. When I ran out of the navy fabric, instead of cutting into another chunk of the navy yardage (which has been purchased to be the back of my silk wholecloth quilt), I decided to make a few of the blocks using just the jewel tones. These were casually interspersed around the border. I tried to add the more colourful blocks in areas of the quilt where the navy came to the edge. After the border was completed, there wasn't much of the "Yukata" fabric left over, but I managed to