How did I make my decision...........

I knew I wanted the Kaffe #150 Strata as the sashing on my Ohio Star quilt so I tried all of the colors that I had.

I had a strip of the blue stripe in my studio because it was left over from a binding a while back.  I thought it was going to work but it was too dark.

Next I tried the red thinking it would look good but too many of the blocks had red corner squares so the red stripe blended in to them too much.

I have used the light stripe as a border on another quilt and I thought it might keep the quilt neutral but I thought it looked a little anemic and also blended into the light backgrounds.

The gold one might have worked but there are a lot of blocks that had yellow or gold corner squares.

That left the green stripe which contrasts nicely with all of the blocks.  

Also in this photo on the left is a candidate for a border on this quilt.  The blocks aren't the star of this quilt, the whole composition is more important.