Can you use just one strip of a colour in a hooked rug?

I am working on a big floral rug with an organic shape. I have been picking small bits out of my big basket of mixed strips and throwing in things you would not expect. I like having that big basket beside me of bits from rugs I made over the past months because it reminds me not to do the expected. It reminds me that tiny bits of one colour in a rug create an unexpected beauty and feeling in it. We need to throw in the unexpected because sometimes it is that tiny thing that makes the mat.