Thank you on the blocks. My answer is from Lisa Calle, she uses the "channel quilting" to allow the designs to be seperated from each other and the backfill does not mesh together so you can have different fills and still have design pop. It is a close adjacent line that is like an echo. I just watched her dvd so now I know and have a plan. Thinking I am going to put diamonds with a curved cross hatch fill in the little space I have there. It is only 4.5" available to quilty there anyway. Will have to be sure that my flower blocks have a really nice showcase in the center of them. The leaves are way to full so just a backfill for them. still trying to decide on the fabric for the border, do I blend or do I pop? that is the question of the day now. I have top sewn, now to add borders and fun.
Nice progress on those embroidered blocks, love the setting you have chosen.