The Quilter's Edge
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Beyond the Blocks
, by Nancy J. Martin – This book is a great help in taking your quilts beyond basic using more unusual but still traditional settings and borders. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in the quilts used as examples and the instructions are top-notch. It tells you how to measure for pieced borders, how to make a border with a mitered corner, unusual settings and sashings (I particularly like the courthouse steps sashing example), and so on. Nancy J. Martin founded Martingale $ Co., publishers of That Patchwork Place books.
, by Nancy J. Martin – This book is a great help in taking your quilts beyond basic using more unusual but still traditional settings and borders. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in the quilts used as examples and the instructions are top-notch. It tells you how to measure for pieced borders, how to make a border with a mitered corner, unusual settings and sashings (I particularly like the courthouse steps sashing example), and so on. Nancy J. Martin founded Martingale $ Co., publishers of That Patchwork Place books. 
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Borders, Bindings and Edges
, by Sally Collins – This book covers just about everything to do with borders and edges and includes more advanced and complicated options than the previous two books. Techniques include narrow and pieced borders, pieced corner triangles, use of border prints in borders, curved edges, appliquéd swags in borders, piped and bound edges. I recently went back to this book looking for ideas for a medallion style quilt. Ms. Collins own work typically consists of very small blocks set into wall-hanging size quilts but the techniques covered in this book easily translate to larger quilts. 
This is WILD... someone asked me about my scallop and the binding, and I told her about Darlene's book, but that the name had escaped me. And not 20 seconds after I send off the email reply... I see this post. That is WILD!
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