I'd break it up a bit with some black sashing! I love the fabrics you've chosen. Be sure to post when finished!

Why wouldn't he like it? I think it's cool... The few blocks that are "framed" are sort of the focus blocks, and the rest all blends together into a busy background. But that's fine! Comic book illustration is busy like that. I would leave it just as you started. Put it together and quilt it and give him a quilt he will love.

Agree with others, Trene. It does need a place to rest the eye and think black to be the perfect choice. For me there's enough going on to stimulate the eye...think red sashing and border would only serve to overstimulate and, personally, my eye would be jumping all over the place focusing on nothing. If it were mine I would, also, just stitch in the ditch around each of the motifs to subtely further separate one from the other...just my opinion. Good luck....don't give up...it'll be fine!

I also would suggest sashing to slow down the busyness. You may even have to buy or borrow a few fat quarters to audition the results. I did make a quilt I didn't love. I took my blocks to a LQS to audition different fabrics and get advise. I finally got it finished and I love it. It's my 2nd grandson quilt.
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I'd use a black fabric about an inch wide between the sections.

Please post a new pic when you are finished with it.
We will all be anxious to see the end result! :thumbup:

Trene-
It is the nature of comic book art to be overly busy. I would tone it down with black sashing, and a black border with
perhaps individual super heroes, such as the large batman and the flying superman, fussy-cut and fused on to a black background at the corners. I have also used small figures such as those in your backing fabric, cut out with four snowball
block corners in the colors in that super hero as a border. Since that can get VERY time consuming, I would intersperse
a plain black square between each one to cut the # needed in half. I assume that you are making a queen quilt so
borders would help expand the quilt- a narrow black innermost border, a superhero snowball middle border and an
outer black border. I personally think your quilt looks great, but to each his or her own...-Judy Mannix

Personally I would us a netural fabric like that gray, put this around the comic fabrics and use same as border, this will calm it down and still have some motion in it.

It will look great once you put your sashing on it. Will be a great conversation piece for the kids to tell you who is their hero.

First of all, I really like the concept, and I like your blocks, but I would definitely consider sashing, possibly black, and I think asking your husbands opinion of whatever possibilities you are considering, is a good idea. (is this a long sentence, or what).:o Good luck with your quilt. I am sure you will love it when it is finished.