JoAnnB said it just exactly as I was thinking it.
First! I want to say that you have taken a very basic quilt pattern and made it so very elegant with your choice of colors and fine workmanship.
The blocks and the colors in them are very strong and defined, and the floral just can't hold a candle to your blocks.
I like that floral, and it might have worked if it have been perhaps big blocks throughout the quilt, but what you have done with the center of the quilt is just great, in my humble opinion ...
I like the idea of a thin border and strong color as JoAnnB suggested (can you tell that I read the first page and the last page of your thread? ;-) ) for the binding.
I can hardly wait to see how you decide to finish it <wave>