Scrappy Trip and Storm at Sea WIP x 2

I have too many WIP.  I love fabric, I love colours, I love the rush of excitement in starting and seeing how things come together....and then I get bored.  The rest of life catches up with me.  We move house again, (we've moved house a lot!) and the project gets packed up and put away.

But not with my Scrappy Trip quilt.  This is the most recent quilt top I've started.  I'm confident I'll get this top finished this year.  The quilting is now finished, next job is piecing together the remaining strips to make a scrappy binding.

I know lots of other people have already made Scrappy Trips around the World, I'm just a (very) late starter.  I got a great set of instructions here....

My version is almost all scraps.  Some shirting remnants from our time in Singapore, a gift from a dear friend, a non-sewer who specially went in search of shirting scraps for me; some scraps from a class with Kaffe Fassett some six years ago (another still unfinished WIP); some secondhand shirts purchased recently in Melbourne.  I'm loving working with all the memories and glorious colours.

My second current WIP has a working title of "Storm at Sea". 

This WIP was started March 2009, while we were living in Melbourne.  Coincidentally it was also started to use up some fabric cut for the same Kaffe Fassett class, but the wrong depth of colour.  I wanted to re-use the big blocks, like the blue and pink daises on the deep purple background below, without trimming them down at all.  I also wanted to use the 'Ohio Star Quilt' pattern from Kaffe Fassett's Kaleidoscope of Quilts book.  The blocks were already cut at 9.5inches, whereas the Ohio Stars called for 11.5 inch blocks.  Much mathematical redrafting occurred.  Inappropriate language was used. 

The top was half made before we had to pack up for the move to Singapore.  It was finally recovered from a box mid 2011, and I completed all the stars and all but the corner setting triangles.  Now it is out again.  I am determined to get borders onto it, a back pieced, and layers basted together before we move house again.  Let's see if I make it!

Borders are auditioned in the photo below.  I've decided I don't like either of these options.  I think I need the energy of the border on the right, but more of the colour of the stars.  What do you think?