Breathtaking quilt. Last year at guild one of the LAer's showed a quilt with many of those same blocks after she finished quilting it. The maker had her quilt the year under the ship and then she did all different fills behind the applique and a microfil in the ship block to get the quilted date to pop up. Some of the applications she did was echo quilting, radiating lines tiny mussle shells, pebbling, little tiny feathers. She took a lot of inspiration from Sharon Schambers. It was spectacular. as I am sure yours will be as well.