More and More

I have been quilting the Badger quilt.  I didn't like this quilt to start with. It had only 2 colors, and I thought it was boring.  However, as I have been working on it, especially now in the quilting phase, I am liking it more and more.  I decided I could jazz it up a little in the quilting, there is a lot of red background to play with.  I wanted to keep it somewhat simple, and because there is a fleece backing, it can't be too tightly quilted so that the fleece stays soft.

I like echoing, and I like ruler work, so I decided to just echo the negative space.  That looked good.  But still needed something more. So, I quilted a square frame in the empty echoed spaces.  It looked even better.  The quilt still needs something "more!"  I have such a hard time deciding how to quilt these bigger areas. 

One thing I noticed though, the more I put quilting in the negative spaces, the puffier the stars are becoming, and the stars are losing the focus! This quilt is not about negative space, it's about these great stars, which don't look like stars anymore.  I am thinking I need to echo the gray stars and star points.  That's gonna take a long time and I didn't want to invest so much time in this quilt!  What to do???  I will finish the red echoing and see how it looks overall, then decide!  Stay tuned...