My DH always gives me his opinion (when asked) on color, quilting design, or whatever. His suggestion was to place a couple of stitches (kind of like tying) in the corner of ever other 2 1/2 inch block on every other row. His reason for this is so it doesn't take away from the beautiful design. I will probably hand quilt some design on the outer border. I thought it was kind of funny that you and my DH was thinking along the same line...lol.