lizzie - hope you are having fun with your new machine! When I got my Bailey and frame, I went right to working on a quilt, figured that was the way I'd practice! I did a design that fit into the blocks, gentle curves for the most part. Wasn't going to try something like feathers to start with!
QBJ - that top is stunning! Love the large center, I always love a medallion style quilt.
I've not made much progress with my dresden plate top. Put it on the design wall to look at for a while and am leaning towards making different plates for it. My original idea was to make random plates and put them on a plain background, then it morphed to using the doilies, then I went with a "courthouse steps" type background and now think the plates I started with don't work. So I'll save them to use like the original plan and select fabric that goes with the background and doilies to complete this one.