The black is really hard to take pictures of. The border of the quilt is black. It looks scalloped in the pictures. There are feathers all along the border. By the way, if you are new to free motion quilting and doing feathers, practice on paper as much as possible! This was the only way I improved! You have to draw them in a bunch of different ways and shapes! I look at my note books and it is hard to believe how awful they were in the beginning.