Dull muted gold would be perfect but since you flat out reject that color, then it has to be red.

Stand back and look through a door peekaboo viewer thingamabob and you will see that there is already a lot of green so green sashing would be too, too much.

The red caught my eye right away.  The green seems to lack the same pizzazz .

Cris in MT

 what finally decided me was looking at the various sashing fabrics I had pulled, and which one I honestly liked as a fabric.  Red it is.

Looks pretty red right now.  But I know the green across the top will offset that some.

I LOVED all your options.. YOU, dear girl, are one prolific quilt maker.  I'm just amazed at how many you are making.  

It does not look pretty red right now.

It look perfect.

I like it with the red. You do a beautiful job.

whoohoo!! looks great

Not "too" red though; just dramatic -- makes me want to look closer to be sure I don't miss any detail.

Cris in MT

This is the kind of applique quilt that people at the Dallas Quilt Show would go ga-ga over, and put their noses right up close to the quilt, to see all of the fine stitching, and take close-up photos.  

I may have to rethink where I was going to hang it to make it easier to look up close.