Quilting my Tiny Town appliqué quilt

I've decided not to wait until it is all done, to share this quilt with you all.  There are going to be a bunch of close up pictures of the blocks on this quilt, so I will need to break it up into two separate posts.  Here is a refresher on what quilt I am quilting.  This is Tiny Town.  It is all appliqué.

Just know that this is only the first pass.  What I am doing first is securing the layers by quilting the edges and the blocks all in the ditch.   Then before advancing, I am quilting the backgrounds.  I will be going back to do a second pass, to quilt the actual appliqué pieces and the borders on my way back up.

This is one of the beginning blocks.  This one I didn't quite get the shadows right, to show off the quilting, but you will see a corner of this block in the next picture, for a closer look.  You can also enlarge the picture to get a better look at how I stitched it.  

I am trying to come up with quilting motifs that use the fabric's designs to direct where and what the quilting will be.  In the above block, I followed the lines and did a boxed zig zag in the background, with the two side strip's lines to follow the stripes.  In the block below, I used the dots, or should I say the space between the dots to make a cross hatch, without having to mark my lines.  There are nine dots per full block.  Then for the second half of the block, I just did a squiggly line between the squiggly motif of the fabric. 

For this next block, I decided to also use the dots to direct where I was going to quilt.  These dots are further apart, so it looks like I've made rows.  I picked a centre point and quilted lines in a chevron from all four sides, meeting but not touching at the centre point.  Though the house in the block hides the path a bit.  I thought it looked cute, and different from what I've done so far.

As you can see, each of these backgrounds are different and they are each quilted differently.  I have more different backgrounds and they are all spread out across the quilt.  I plan on using the same quilting design for each of the blocks with the same background.  This way it will be equally distributed across the quilt.

I've already completed three "rows", though they are not technically "rows".  Blocks are assembled in sections and some sections are higher or lower then others.  I have approximately two more "rows" to do, to finish the ditch and background quilting.

I am liking how it is turning out so far and I am actually having fun doing it.  I just have to do it in blocks of time, as it's a bit more intense quilting.  Most of these lines are only 1/2" apart.  That's why it is taking sooooo long!

Take care everyone.