Here's a Christmas project I'm making for my daughter. I love the fabrics, but when I got it laid out it all seemed a bit dark. So I'm considering adding sashing - but it doesn't go between all the blocks. It would not be this material - but a darker cream - maybe even a muslin? I'd have to cut the blocks down to put sashing around each block. So ... none of this is sewn together... the blocks are made and just laid out. What, oh Wise Ones, do you suggest?
AND the first picture has a box of buttons I'm considering using for embellishment - like on the snowmen printed buttons and eyes. Would you just put them here and there? Does that make it not as cozy - to have buttons strewn about?