First Quilt Finish Of 2025

I dug around in my bin of 2 1/2" strips and pulled out all the blue ones. This is what I came up with. A 5" spacer strip was added between the units. For the quilting, I tried "Borders on a Roll". They were sitting in a cupboard for more than 20 years, so I though I should finally use them. They are long paper strips with a design printed on them. The back has some glue to stick them to the quilt. Stitching is done through the paper, following the design, then the paper is torn off. It wasn't the easiest thing to do on Matilda the longarm. There are wobbles here and there. At one point, a pleat was stitched into a row because the fabric stretched but the paper didn't. Jack the Seam Ripper had to come out and undo that blunder. The rest of the quilt was done with freeform wavy lines.