Thank you Moonpi and 2 Doods. I will def use colour thread of the applique now, thanks for telling me that. Here is a photo of it. I have changed the gold chain squares to navy, to offset the christmas look to it. It's a quilt i'm making for a caregiver friend. So i chose the sunshine and shadow pattern, and inbetween i have stars. The sunshine and shadow blocks are bugging me. I shouldn't have made the centre of those blocks white, so i am thinking of changing those to tan, i think it will tone the quilt down a bit. Then i think on the borders i will use more earth tones too. Right now it's collecting dust cus i'm rather frustrated.