A hundred shades of green

Like many of you, I am the recipient of other people's fabrics from time to time. In summer I got this green swag, about 2 ft by 20 feet, made from forest green cotton and nicely finished with angled points at both ends. 

I laid it out on my staircase so you get the idea. Now I don't want to hang it on a window, like the original owner did, but I thought I could repurpose it somehow for my church.

I dug through my green scraps and asked my friends to do the same until I got this pile of scraps

(and I restrained myself from incorporating them into my own stash, even the nice bits. I do have a bit of self-control.)

Then I cut the swag in half and put them side-by-side and laid them out on my design bed (which conveniently happens to be in my sewing room, or is it my sewing machine is in my bedroom?)

and started laying out out the green bits.

I should have glued them down, by DS2 took the only non-dried up glue stick in the house to school with him this morning, so I pinned and pinned and pinned (I had to get this together today, or no one was going to be able to sleep in the design bed.)

Then I took it to the sewing machine, loaded up whatever green thread I had (and I used up several ends of spools, which was another brilliant part of this project, because don't we all have bits of thread here and there we're saving?)

sewed straight lines to catch raw edges and sewed some more

and pinned it up on the design wall (conveniently located at the foot of the design bed) to show you.

This is intended to be a banner for an environmental project sponsored by my denomination, called 100 Shades of Green. Everything in the banner was repurposed or re-used. The thing about banners is they need to look good from far away, since they hang high in a church. So what I need to know is  how does it look from there? Once the hanging rod with finials is on it, it will look a bit more balanced. What else does it need? Some bits of brighter green?

And what do you think about the asymetrical bottom? Should I made it more pronounced? I haven't sewn the top casings yet, so anything is possible.