Anything from a cream to a light tan.

Anytime I see red in fabric I say...go with red. But as MadQuilter said...cream and red would look nice too.

I am really partial to the colors red and blue and then either white or cream to go with it.

I'm wondering how the stripe in your fabric will work into this quilt - could be really cool or could distract. I'll be watching!!!1 Please post photo when you are done! :lol:

I would use a tone-on-tone dark fabric for the background, matching any of the darkest colors in your layer cake fabrics. (Dark fabrics make other colors stand out.)

Then I'd do a double border, the innermost being very light in color (tone-on-tone, probably cream) and very thin (1/4" - 1/2" finished). (Actually, because this border will be so thin, you can use a solid color instead of tone-on-tone.)

The second border would be relatively wide and made from a tone-on-tone fabric of your (or your mother's) favorite medium color that appears in the layer cake fabrics. For example, you might choose either a red or a turquoise or a tan. All would be beautiful.

For binding, you could repeat any of these colors.

Hope this helps! (Wish I could go fabric shopping with you. It's my favorite part of quilting!)

I've got this same collection of fabric, I found a nice cream with little flowers on it, its Splendor by Jason ventor, In the Beginning fabrics. I've used it for the back ground and the backing.