I'm doing it backwards
 

I was using a restaurant restroom and noticed some tile trim that would make a great quilt border. So now I have an idea for a border, but am stumped on what to do in the field. Here is the border. Any ideas on a block type that would look good. All I could come up with was to use it on a quilt with a lot of the beige background. Maybe something on point? Help, and thank you.

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The colors remind me of sunflowers. Maybe you could applique sunflowers in each block. Nice looking border!

i'd be tempted to put a curved piece middle so the nice border stands out

That would make a great border.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me to start with a frame and then look for something to put it around.

If you do decide to go with blocks - you could just make them - and then use sashings and/or additional borders to "make them fit" inside your "frame."

Love the border!!! I don't have a suggestion but have also been inspired in bathrooms by their pattern on the floor.:D

Hold onto that pattern. One day the perfect block will come along and you will fit the two together. I see quilt patterns everywhere also. Tiles, architecture, old movies, it always reminds me that nothing is truly new. We just think it is. That's a great border pattern.

Alternate appliqued sunflowers with barn blocks. It also remind me a little of Indian corn. Appliqued scarecrows, corn, and squash.

My first thought was a medallion applique with a few different borders with this being the final one.....

LOL, I'm glad I'm not the only person who's taken a photo of restaurant bathroom tile! Fabulous find!
I'm seeing harvest time wheat fields, barns.

I think I'd put a fabric that I love so much I don't want to cut it in the frame. The border design is very pretty. Maybe you could put large squares sashed the same as the border. Have fun!