I have made over 100 of these Dresden plates as donations for our Festival of Trees fund-raiser--mostly of various Christmas fabrics on white on white or cream backgrounds in hexagon or octagon shapes and some decorative stitching with my sewing machine stitches on the backgrounds. Also made several red, white and blue ones for 4th of July decoration at our condo community room. Never get tired of making them.
I like your colors but agree about replacing the light color blades. Very nice tribute to your Mom. My Mom had brown, gold and orange and I gravitate toward those colors too so guess I'll dig thru the scraps to see what I can find to make one.