I played with floss colours and the direction of stitching on my little fabric strips for my background on this one as well. My heart is hand cut from two pieces of fabric which I stitched together. I used white floss to stitch it to my background and then ran a length of the same floss under all the stitches which gives a bit of a neat look. I have several more sets of rainbow squares cut so I will see if I can come up with a different way of stitching them up!! Therese