How to make quilt with scraps and no pattern?

I've seen outer pieced borders done with really small pieces of the same fabrics used in the quilts and I have also seen them made from long pieces of another fabric -- something you would purchase for this purpose. The long pieces were usually a solid or tone on tone or a very small print that "read" as almost a solid. It just depends on whether you need to increase the size of the quilt or want to sort of frame it with the border. I must have missed some of the thread because I never read what type of "un"pattern you decided to use. Could you please let us know? Thanks & CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Thanks for the clarification; I won't be needing to add length/width to the quilt, but, aesthetically, this border might make for a nice effect. It's something to go "hmmm" about. ;)

A strip of fabric placed between rows or between blocks to separate them from the others. They can be pieced or whole cloth strips. They can be used to make a quilt top larger without having to make more blocks, or to make many different blocks work together.

This is a Chinese Coins quilt with pink sashing between the rows of "coins".