First of all, beautiful quilt! Now to the quilting...... after reading the other posts & going back & studying it again, I don't see using gold thread. I think it will overpower it. What batting are you going to use? Look at the stitch distance for the batting. If you can get away with it, I'd just outline the 1/4 circles. Like you would go around applique. Definitely SITD all of the sashings. In the sashings you could do a small pattern of genko (?) leaves. There I think you could get away with the gold maybe. I think larger leaves in the border would tie it all together. Maybe a light stippling in the black & white area with their respective colors too. I know, a lot of thread changes for each pass, but worth it in the end.

I love Asian fabric and have a future quilt in the "bought the fabric, chose the pattern" phase. I love your quilt! Do post when it's quilted.

I just wanted to chime in and say how intriguing your quilt is, especially the way it looks like the black is woven in. I'm waiting to see it finished, I'm sure our experts are going to steer you in the right direction.

My original thought was just to do a very simple design in gold thread along the sashing strips. Then do a nice border also in the gold. I havent found a good batting yet. the top is very heavy now. I actually have to keep it folded while waiting rather than hung like I do all my other tops because of the weight. I need something that will allow me to stitch up to 6in apart. the circle quarters are only 5ins in diameter, so I could get away with not stitching.

I also thought about doing a feather design in that black/white areas, but think everyone is right, the quilting needs to be very simple.

No suggestions - just wanted to say it's a beautiful quilt!

how about Sitch in the ditch and the some echoing around the cirlces. Its really pretty and the echoing will make the circles stand out.

Gorgeous quilt! I have no suggestions on the quilting pattern though, sorry.

Beautiful quilt. Great job.

Yes!!I think I have seen some of your work you have quilted and it is outstanding...You will come up with a design that is great..something very exquisite..

I originally started out sending a PM to fantasticfeline after seeing one of her oriental quilts. After some back and forth with her. I have decided on not using metallics at all, going to do a fancy baptist fan design on the quarter circles. and a pebble in channel along the sashing. not really sure how to explain it more than that. I still have to get the borders on it before I can start quilting it. So it will be a little bit before it is finished. But the designs just clicked for me and I can "see" the finished product in my head. :) I want to thank everyone for your help and input. I am still fairly new to quilting, (about 2yrs now) . I appreciate all the input.....and everyone is right, no more metallics on this top. I will save my metallic obsession for other tops. HUGS!