My feeling as I look at the quilt is that the quilt looks like it is in jail. I think the stained glass rectangles are too narrow for the sashing (or the sashing is too wide for the rectangles). I think it needs that narrow gold border to
offset the center of the quilt and I agree with the ideas of jazzykwilter. That's how I see and I waited to say this for a few days to let it percolate. Hope this helps as it is beautiful.