A bit pleased with my quilting

I've completed the quilting on this and am in the process of attaching the binding. Just quietly, I'm more than a bit pleased with how it went. As usual, click on any of the photos for a closer look.
I feathered the white border either side of the ribbon. It's all completely freehand. As I mentioned the other day, the 1/8in gap between the feathers really works for me - but with more practice I hope to be able to drop the gap eventually.

The background quilting is a design I came up with in my doodling.

Although I used white cotton for the feathers and in the white hearts, the background swirls are actually in a pale pink embroidery thread with a lovely sheen. It's the thread I initially chose for the pink hearts.

And here's some of the quiting from the back.

Initially I did over a quarter of the outer border in big loops, but wasn't happy with the result, so I unpicked it this morning and redid it to match the background - the way I should have in the first place!

I'm kind of regretting putting the purple squares on the back - while it looks ok, it detracts from what is probably my best quilting yet.

The centre:

Once it's finished I'll take it outside for some better photos; it's still lovely and wet here, and these were taken on the sewing table, which gets a lot of natural afternoon light, even in wet weather.