I finished the "girly" quilt top this afternoon and I think it came out fine. I am going to pin it up tomorrow and quilt it and it should be done early next week and then I will post pictures. I used 2" for the sashes and mitered the outside sash and I will miter the binding. The binding is going to be the same dusty rose as the 3" blocks. That makes the sewn parts 1"for the small sewn blocks, 2" for the sashes, and 3" for the large solid blocks. A mathematical progression, maybe it is "manly" after all. I think it will be "delicate", as my wife now calls it. I think of it as the sort of thing you would find on a bed in an English B & B, like the ones the we stayed at when we were last over there. Maybe that is where I got the inspiration.
John