I agree, the brown border is the way to go. The braided thing will be nice, but it'll be too busy. You want the focus to be on the center and all that hard work, not some distracting border!

This was my exact thought and since jstitch put it so nicely, I figured I would just quote her. :lol:
Piece ~ Tiffany

Small red border to frame it first would be my choice.

Vrey nice. I would go with brown.

Now that is an excellent idea. It would pull the reds in the center together as well as drawing the eye to the center of the quilt and back again.

Braided is definitely OUT!

I love the idea of Brown's, greens and Blue.

I cannot wait for it to warm up to get the gardens all revived! I think that's why I started that "small project" and have just kept adding things that remind me of being outside.

I'd put birds on the darn thing IF I could find some decent pictures to copy and applique.

I will add additional butterflies rather than vines and flowers.

All great ideas.....This demands a trip to the fabric store. I don't keep blues in my stash. I went through and looked at all the browns, they all had something in them......Greens are mostly Christmas Types.

<twisting arm> going to fabric store!