Thanks everyone!
K...wow..hmmmm....I need to draw that on my plastic on the border. You have a chevron drawn and it looks great on that...but this has the starts and stops of a braid..might still look good. I started the STID yesterday and took out more than I got done. The back is misbehaving. Today I'll sit it down and give it a good talking to before I get started. Your idea would be more dense in the quilting than just doing the curved dips 1/4" from the patch. I think the decision is between the woven basket look and the leafy vine look. Geesh....I need more than this 1/2 cuppa coffee to make this decsision! Thanks for taking so much time to think about it!