Thanks for the ideas. I'll be machine quilting it (no patience for hand quilting, altho I admire those who hand-quilt). I am also thinking of a using block motif in each block with the "cross in a cross" block being one motif and the vase and turtle blocks being another. I'm having "quilter's block" at the moment (but there's plenty of other quilts to be made, so this isn't an emergency!).