Ellen Lindner has done an article on borders in which she uses an image of one of my quilts as an example. It is in the second part.  Currently there is a discussion on borders on QuiltArt.  I think that there are no hard and fast rules about borders and they should be decided upon based on the needs of the individual quilt. Most of my borders seem to be designed into the quilt to subtly frame it as in the example shown. But the quilt that I just started probably will not have one at all because I don’t think it would be appropriate.