HI Carol.. I think your design will be stunning. I found something interesting on my last visit to my LQS that may be jsut what you need. It was a line of batiks that have a wave of color across the WOF....I'm not sure who makes it..I can find out for you if you'd like...but you buy the one piece and it will have like 6 or 8 shades of the same color running across the piece. Its great to work with and I do think that your design made up in batiks will be beautiful!! Let me know if you'd like more info on the fabric...I didn't read all the pages of this thread, so someone else may have already told you about it.