powder blue?

Your yellow print would also look very nice.

What beautiful fabrics! Will be waiting to see pics of auditions of sashing and borders. Nice job.. Well done.

After reading all the comments you must be really confused!
The choice is your's but the best thing to do is to lay 4 blocks on several colors and stand back 8 feet and see which one you like best.. quilt shops usually let you do this. A mottled or solid would be best, don't add a print unless it's a tone on tone.

For some reason, navy blue popped into my mind's eye. I think it would make it pop.

Could you post a picture of your walls? I am having trouble imagining 'cobalt in a batik look" walls. It would make it easier to suggest colors.

I love your colors. I would like burgandy or a shade darker of the blue so everything can pop. Take a pic with the light borders and darker borders and see what everyone thinks?

As someone mentioned earlier, I think you are going to have to audition different colors both dark and light and see what compliments the beautiful colors you have in the blocks.

Post one with a white border and the other with a blue. You would not have to sew the borders for the pics. WOW, the are beautiful!

burgandy would be my choice

I absolutely love your fabric choices. I have always loved using polkadots with florals, etc.

I think the strips depend on what you want to emphasize. If you want to have the blue stand out then use a blue strip, if you want to deemphasize the blue then pick a warm color. Cobalt blue sounds brighter than the colors that you have in the quilt. Using cobalt might be a good way to pull in the wall color.

I think maybe the same blue or the burgundy. Can you take the blocks and lay on the colours to decide

A nice cream or off white never a bright white in my opinion.
The soilid white will stick out like a sore thumb.

Like the cream or a very pastel yellow would also work very well. Remember opsites on the color wheen are complementary to each other. Blue and yellow are opsite's.

Also the pastel will keep it in the same tone as it now is.

If you haven'tinvested in a color wheelthey are very helpful.

Best wishes whatever you choose. Hope the subjestions her have helped you.

ConnieF

Burgundy, pretty shade of gray. The blues will get lost. Also for a bold affect think about black. Pictures are almost always framed that way. The right shade of brown would be nice as well. Take the quilt to your local fabric shop if you can and the right shade will just pop out.

We all can't wait to see the finished one!
Dianne

I have the same fabric and I used white to frame the blocks though it isn't qayg but still think that would look great. Jan

I suggest the white fabric with the blue print.

Yes, I too am having trouble seeing what a cobalt blue Batik looks like. Could you post a picture of your wall?

Lay a piece of LT Sage Green between the square blocks. I know it sounds different because you dont have green except the green with the roses.
I try to put something completely different in the space and use the same for backing.It could have a small tiny print in it like wite has tiny prints in them.Hearts,flowers.Its hard to explain it.I have lots of white with tiny prints that I use as extra when I need something different.Ive seen it in all shades of color.

This is a wonderful wallpaper called Paper Illusions. My bedroom had paneling and this covered the grooves. You tear it up, wet it and hang the piecing.

I adore it and have done my entire house with it (of different papers of course) The one room I have left is my sewing room, I'm starting it this week with a powder blue marble.

Cobalt blue is a color I have difficulty filming, is seems the camera wants to decide the shade but these 2 photos are pretty close...

Those blocks are gorgeous - the fabrics are lovely. It really depends on what colour you want your finished to be quilt to be because it will take on the joining strip colour. On a Queen size quilt there will be alot of joining strips and their colour will be very obvious. So if you use the blue polka dot the finished quilt will "read" as a blue quilt as it will bring forward all the blues in the fabrics. Similarly with the pink, burgandy or green. To keep the interest of the variety of the fabrics I would suggest a white on white. I look forward to seeing a picture of your new quilt on your bed and what ever you decide I'm sure it will be stunning.

Funny, I had already bought a light sage for the joiners but I didn't care for it around the blocks, if I had more green in the blocks that would be my choice.

Yellow!!! (soft)

You either want the fabric to pop and make a point or you want to use your lg squares to make the point .after seeing the blue on your walls.I wouldnt go with burgendry or any pinks.I would go med blue.You will end up with too much blue and you will lose the look your loking for.I would make sure the blue had a sm print in it to add another dimention to the quilt.

I think a little darker blue, Plus you could even pull in a dark burgandy? so many light blues (which are beautiful) but to add one more would wash the beauty of your blocks out. (I think) The wonderful thing abt quilting, IS how do YOU see it. This is your beauty and there is not wrong is your choice. By the way it really is very very preyy. :)

I just looked at the lg qsuares again and the wall.

I would go with a soft white with a sm print in it.
You have a lot of light blue and adding another light blue
will get lost.I worked in a florest and its a lot like quilting you have to add a piece that will draw your eyes to the view you want people to see and one that will make your
bed be you vocal point.Unless you want your walls to be your vocal point.In that case choose the same color as your wall and maybe a shade deeper.

I'd go with a dark or colbalt blue, will make your quilt pop plus will bring your colors in your room together with your quilt!!

lay them out and put different color strips between them stand back and choose the one you like the best.

Now that I have seen the wall color I think there is enough blue in the quilt. I love the idea of the burgundy or a white with blue print (perhaps the one you have with the strips) or a white on white.

Beautiful blocks.

I have read several responses to your quest for suggestions on how to work the border of your lovely quilt top. Your choice should answer one of two questions regarding how you want the viewers to see it. First, do you perceive of it as a picture? If so, choose a color from the body of the quilt, then choose a fabric whose color is a darker value of the color you like best, or the color you wish to enhance. In so doing you will make a frame, and it will be as the frame for a painting. A viewer's attention is focused upon the centered picture. Second, do you perceive of it as an over all color pallette? A lighter value of one of the colors in the body of that top will permit the viewer's eye to be cast all over it thereby not resting on just one area.

Whatever your decision is, viewers will fall in love with that quilt, and you may have to "fight" to keep it! Whoever receives it will love it for years to come. It is a beautiful top.

Sincerely,

Dana Allison

I would use the dark burgandy

I would go with the darker color. Beautiful fabric.

I think yellow or dark rose. I really like the colors! Let us know what you decide.

it is going to be my DH's summer quilt. I made him a winter quilt last summer and I used a double layer of Warm and Wonderful? He's always cold! He says it's the nicest think I ever made for him.

i like the burgandy or drk rose idea. i think it would really make those beautiful colors stand out on thier own.

At first I would have said framing with a dark color always looks nice on blocks. However, after I had several relatively light blocks ready for a charity quilt, I joined them with a dark navy blue. What I ended up with was a loud diamond effect. Perhaps a muted dark color on light blocks would be my selection next time. Good luck with your choice.

I think light blue, too or a gray-blue.

Just weighing in on your question, I like he deep Rose in the largest floral strip, it would add warmth and set off the light blues, also would look good in a cobalt room.:-)

You have a beige in the upper left corner of you photo and several others through the block. I would look for a beige fabric with a brown design...nothing too bold, perhaps some curliques and use that to frame each block. Browns and blues go together very well. Perhaps you could find a brown (to match the above suggested beige/brown combo) with a darker, closer to the cobalt of your walls in it to finish off the quilt. Something like a hand dyed type that goes from beige to brown to shades of blue. You can find it...just keep looking and don't (regardless of what colors you prefer to use) settle for something other than what you want. Just put the quilt away for a while and you WILL run into the perfect fabrics when you least expect it.

If you are considering what I suggested, color wise, may I also suggest that you do some fancy stitches on each block (not necessarily every strip) but use all of the colors of thread that are in the framing and finishing strips. It could make it very striking.

I agree Beth. I thought of burgandy as soon as I saw it myself. BTW.....I LOVE the pic of the quilt in your avatar! Do you have a bigger picture of it you could share with me? Do you have a pattern of it, or can you direct me where to find it? It's AWESOME! :c)

Donna

Dana I agree with your reply... It's her quilt and it depends on what she wants it to say...