Bubbling Along

The celebration quilt commission is coming along nicely. I have now appliqued all of the "champagne bubbles" onto the outback palette background and have joined together the background blocks. Being blue tones, the "bubbles" look more like floating clouds but this outcome is quite serendipitous as the clients operate an air charter business and are looking for a slight avian theme to be introduced into their quilt. My next task is to attach the borders and to applique an aeroplane towing a banner with their names across the top border: