sewcrafty

I'm making this quilt for my sister and the navy border bugged me and I absolutely hate seam ripping so I fussy cut flowers and fused them to the top. The next set of border are going to be a 1 1/2 in of burgundy muddled with a med and navy muddled twisted ribbon followed by another 1 1/2 burgundy strip and then the material that I used to make the heart with will be the final border, most likely scalloped, binded in the burgundy.

Problem 1: The border looks like something is missing. Should I put some vines, leaves etc., or will that become too busy or should I just bite the bullet and rip out the blue border?

Problem 2: Because of the flowers being different colors I was going to use invisible thread to applique down. My sister is a different bird. I know that when she washes this that she'll most likely iron it. Invisible thread won't work then. Any suggestions. I really don't want to take away from the center. Would using a variageted work?

This is one of my UFO's and I want it done!!!! I'm going to try to load a picture and hopefully it'll work.

Thanks in advance for your help.