What a treasure to have! I think I'd just do the binding with no borders too if the quilt is big enough for what you want to use it for. Or with something this special by your GGM maybe it will just be displayed and not actually used so the size doesn't matter. Show us pictures when you're done, please?

you rarely see these flower garden quilts with borders. would be nice to look for some vintage-looking fabric for the back that would more closely match the top. And you are going to
hand quilt it ??

Very pretty, I always like a few borders to frame a quilt, just me.

The size doesn't really matter to me: it's close enough to a twin size that I'm going to put it on the daybed in the guest room. And I'm going to hand-quilt it, with my name and date, and her name and (approx) date.

In my opinion, you would best honor your GGM by leaving her work intact, not adding to it, just batting (preferably with cotton), quilting, and binding it as is. It's very pretty!

Jan in VA

Jory, you are soooooo lucky to have such an heirloom!!
Can't wait to see it. :D

I agree with Jan. I wouldn't border it. Just leave it plain, as GGM probably would have done.

If we could see some pictures we could help better.

My daughter also inherited one similar. It has the rounded edges because the blocks are rounded. We don't know how to finish it off. She asked me (she hand quilted it). (She's 18.)

So how DO you finish off such a quilt?

I've seen them both straight edge (but not cut flowers!) or the edge follows the last row of flowers like a scalloped border.

This is one of my grandmother's. It is hand pieced and quilted.