Hi Eiltocq
I had nine shades of blue and placed the five dark ones in the middle and in the four corners, the rest the lighter shades of blue.
As I needed 100 Patches I placed every one of the darker blue 25 times in the middle so it would end up as those little squares.
Hope this is understandable and thanks for the compliments.
Granny
@Illinois
I am handquilting with an 8" stencil "Tulipblock" with a dark blue quilting thread (85 blocks to go......) and it looks great to me:-)
Cant think of handling such a large quilt with the machine and love handquilting.