Good job!
The variety displayed in your two quilts shows a lot of promise for future projects.
I personally appreciate the traditional quilt blocks and remember as a child, the thing I liked best was tracing the quilting pattern formed by the thread holding all the layers together. They must have been large stipples because I would trace the "roads" over and over ...
For beginning quilting, you selected some techniques that are only done by more experienced quilters (and, I like your color choices <g>). Thank you for sharing <wave>