Ok, I know understand what a clamshell pattern is (trust me, you don't want to know what I was thinking as I was way way off!). Anyways, looking at these as options (in the white drawn image), which suit the colored panel best?
http://www.anitashackelford.com/quil...emplates.html#
If you do not do it over the entire front of the quilt, how do you "end" the column cleanly? It appears that the "7 treasures" pattern is the only one that would feel "finished" near the border of the colored panels. Does that make sense?
Now, as for the white space, I have googled and simply don't know what I'm looking for...does anyone have any examples of a braid/column quilt pattern?