February journal planning - Brexit 2

The madness continues as the UK heads on a course of self-destruction with no-one apparently able to stop the idiocy. The Brexit theme of the journal quilts has to continue.
How to convey 27 nations working together, and one as an outlier?

Initial sketch

My travel schedule with work means that any stitching project in the first quarter of the year has to be mostly completed by hand, and has to get through airport security, hence hand applique, using my favourite technique of wash-away stabiliser.

 Glue pen at the ready

Circles all glued, ready for stitching

Testing oil sticks to give some variation of colour on commercial fabrics.

Checking colour gradation in black and white

Full colour gradation