well, I finished the top!!!
I can cross off part one of the first of the (cough cough) pile of UFO's!
I used the old sashing to make the outside borders and found that I still had a bit of the fabrics in my stash to finish off where I was lacking. The only 'new' fabrics would be the pink sashing and the darker blue sashings around the interior parts...
Whew! :-P