With the Olympics next year in London 2012 now's the time to start a fun quilt to celebrate and to involve your youngsters in the event.

One of the highlights of the opening ceremony is the march past of all the teams with the lead athletic holding high their country's flag.

Each border pattern is 15cm or 6" wide (measured from the middle of one orange wavy line to the middle of the next orange wavy line) and runs across the width of the fabric from selvedge to selvedge.   The fabric is 1.10m or 43" wide.

Match the border fabric with the individual athletes in a green or blue background.

Here are a couple more sections of the border fabric.