Newfie45

I just finished my very first fusible applique - love the colors, love the design (not mine) but am dithering about how to hand quilt it. As you can see every other block is blank and I traced a design that I like onto one of the blank squares. Now my dilemma - do I quilt all the blank blocks with the same color thread or do I do each block with one of the three colors in the main design? I don't usually procrastinate on these things, but this one we will keep in our guest bedroom and I'd like it to be perfect (or as perfect as I can make it - LOL). The other concern I have is about the design I traced - is it the right size for the blank squares or should it be smaller or bigger? Am trying to attach two pix, but don't know if I can. Many thanks for your help in getting me started on the quilting portion of this, and quilting is the part I love best. Whoa, I just previewed the post and those pix are LARGE!!!! OMG, I have no idea on how to make them smaller.