Thanks everyone. The ladybugs are appliqued on. The original pattern was for a red, black, green and yellow quilt, but my daughter isn't a fan of green and her favorite color is pink, so we changed it up a bit. It meets the batting requirements in the centers, for the most part. My concern was that there's a little stretch of batting, from one corner to the other, that is 12" long, but in the center it's 1" wide, so I thought that that would be fine, but wasn't sure.