It's pretty, even if it wasn't in your "safe zone", she loves it and so does her niece. I was once commissioned to make a quilt for a friend, using the strips she had sewn from possibly every craft she had ever done. Her request was that it had to have red sashing. Well, she offered to pay me, so I figured the customer is always right. All through the quilt's progress, I kept telling myself something I'd heard a well known quilt instructor, can't remember her name, but she said that to her red was a neutral and she had the crayon colored house to prove it. So, I just kept saying, "Red is a neutral, red is a neutral." My DH and DS loved it and so did she, so I guess red is a neutral if you keep telling yourself that.