heyuitsme

ooh, what about this?
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=block...42&tx=23&ty=74
with black and batiks?

Donna in Mo

I love bailey's appliqued flowers! Wow, that would really make the quilt. I have an embroidery machine, so I would embroider the flowers.

Rose Bagwell

I agree, use the colors you have on the blocks and make a strip border, blocks or triangles. I too like the use of the black color.

fireworkslover

How about piecing together all your different fabrics and use that to make a narrow flange or a skinny piping. Put it right next to the binding, which I'd think would be black. That will pull those colors out to the edge and make a nice frame for the quilt, with the black binding.

DonnaB

I agree with coldquilter, piano keys really set off a no. of quilt patterns.

BETTY62

I would put a border on all sides of the quilt. I would use one or more of the frabics in the quilt to make the border. Your quilt will be beautiful when finished.

WMUTeach

How about quilting it with variegated threads of some of those beautiful brilliant colors? I am thinking of the quilting on the black just to tie in the colors and to create a continuous thought of color.

BarbaraSue

Ditto. I like the piano keys idea for bringing the batiks to the edge.

jcrow

I totaly agree with southernmema. Reduce the outside border to the same width as the sashing.

suzanprincess

To keep it quick, how about after trimming the current black border to the size of the sashing, then add miniatures of the batik blocks, perhaps 1/4 or 1/8 size in matching and coordinating batiks, end to end in a strip around the outside. Bind in black or border again in black, depending on the size quilt you want to end up with.