I have a beautiful feathered cross pre-printed panel that I would like to use as a medallion for my queen-sized bed. I plan to use wool batting and look forward to handquilting it. I'm trying to think of ideas for the borders to enlarge it to the queen size that would accent but not overpower the simplicity of the center block which is about 36" square. Any ideas out there?
My only thoughts are possibly adding a rich-toned border & paperpiecing intricate-looking mariner stars with 'blank' off white squares between, or using a nice rich-toned border and doing simple nine patch blocks alternated with cream blank ones.