What quilting pattern?

Will you be quilting your top by hand or machine?

The answer to that would also influence your choice of batting , which in turn would dictate how dense you'd need to quilt your top and that would also influence the quilt design for your top.

If you are machine quilting and working with a quilt batting like warm & natural or warm & white, you can quilt up to 10" appart, so you don't need to do as much quilting.

Just briefly looking at the design I'd stitch around each individual design first (this would bring out the design more)and then I'd stitch grass and little flowers in the horizontal rectangles, larger flowers & butterflies in the other spaces (squares). To fill empty spaces on the quilt I would stitch in a loopty loop way (simulating a bee in flight).

Here's a link to a video with free-motion stitched large flowers that you can easily stitch in the large square areas of your quilt and in the section of the diamonds you can see how you easily can adapt the loops to make a "bee in flight" stitch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g1wCUmDsczY

Hope this helps.

I would quilt each bug according to its attributes. You could do echo quilting in the butterfly wings and snakes. The butterfly wings could also have several loops going out from the body into the wings. You could do long wavy lines in the snakes. You could do a little loopy flower in each section of the caterpillar. You could do cute scallops in the bee, and maybe add little flowers in the cheeks. The ladybug may need to be in-the-ditch. The other bug bodies could have a loopy flower quilted in the body. The outside of each bug could be echo quilted or just little loops & swirls. The plain blocks could be anything you wanted. You could quilt the outline of a bug, or do little butterfly shapes, stars & loops, whatever you like. I wish I could draw you some of the things I'm thinking of.

Use wonder under to attach the bugs to the fabric and stitch around them. Wonder under is a fuse-able webbing (Iron on ) with paper on one side , so you can draw what ever you want and cut them out. Good Luck ;)))

It's really cute...how about just tying it?