I made a couple bed runners this way several years ago. I had rescued some antique "flowers" in a very fragile state, and wanted to save them. I appliqued them to off white background squares and used soft green with white pin dots for the sashing. I wanted green to represent leaves but choose the light pin-dot fabric to give it a softer, antique, non competitive look. I gave one as a Christmas gift to a dear fiend and kept one for myself. Mine is currently packed away somewhere. I had forgotten about it until I saw your post Think I will get it out for Spring soon.