I love seeing your designs evolve! I liked the 2nd one with the partial mariner's stars as part of the borders, and I THINK you 'tied' them together with a border strip - or maybe with the binding - or maybe I tied them together in my imagination ~ ~ ~ But that means you'd probably need to add something else in the background you added so it would qualify as a bed quilt - which is a great idea, because you're going to win prizes with this beauty! MAYBE some more bubbles? I wish I had EQ7 - I'd try out some of my ideas for your quilt! I'm still bumbling along with EQ5 - which is NOT user friendly.