Originally Posted by PurplePassion
How about using a wider black border around the pheasant panel and about half the width of the bargello? It is so hard to "see" the different ideas, and I don't want to keep cutting up fabrics to try it.
Can you take another set of photos - one with just the bargello panels and one with the pheasant panel - from exactly the same distance apart - and if you have a color printer, you could print several copies of them and do "cut and paste" with paper instead of fabric.
And then take scans or photos of the various layouts. Sometimes the camera seems to "see/process" differently than our eyes/brains/minds do.