I eventually settled on a different theme, but I had been considering a crazy quilt all in whites/off whites and particularly incorporating laces and trims and textured fabrics but not focusing on embroidery stitches.
My test blocks worked just fine, I used the quick construction technique from Karla Alexander, the "Stack the Deck" concept.
https://www.amazon.com/Stack-Deck-Cr.../dp/1564774341
They have template kits now you can buy, Karla was one of the founders of the technique and the book teaches you to do it without templates and gives a lot of good directions on how to get enough fabrics to mix well, that's the Stacking the Deck part.