"Both" of those quilts are very beautiful! Looking forward to seeing your quilting on them. Thanks for taking the trouble to post all that for us to enjoy.
Reversible is such a good way to go because:
it only needs one batting, takes up less room in storage than two quilts would, only has to quilted once, and if it's scrappy, it uses up twice as many scraps!
I'm doing a reversible one (or maybe should call it a 'set'?) now, trying to use up a ton of scraps. Just doing stitch-in-the-ditch cuz it works with both sides since it's a QAYG so both sides are comprised of the same size blocks with very different designs on each side.