It works great to use embroidery and quilting. I have made several. When I have made them I always go for 30's fabrics. I set the embroidery blocks into the quilt like a standard quilt block, then freemotion stitch around the embroidery to match the background fabric. It really works great and helps the embroidery stand out.

Sewbizgirl, your quilt is beautiful. I could never do the hand embroidery, but I am going to keep that layout in mind when I see some machine embroidery I like.

Sewbizgirl-love your quilt and repo's 30's fabric is my favorite fabrics. Your quilt is beautiful.
Jazz-what about looking for old pillow cases or some other articles that have embroidery on them. I have been collecting items that have embroidery on them and cut out the thread work and I am going to make a crazy quilt with the embroidery in the center. I think your hand work would be beautiful in a quilt.

Beautiful quilt.... hand embroidery and piecing so gorgeous together.

About 5 years ago I made a somewhat "crazy" quilt with sew and flip using embroidery from pillowcases, etc. It was fun to do.
Embroidered quilts are a category at our fair, so they are not rare.

Sewbizgirl, I have that pattern and seeing it got me started thinking about it! Moving it to top of my list!!!

I have made embroidered quilts from kits, and also made a couple of silk crazy quilts with embroidery. The crazy quilts were fun, I did 12" blocks and did not repeat an embroidery stitch more than once in each block.

I haven't done it, but I would think you could make the embroidery squares and treat them like panels.

A good source for vintage hand embroidered blocks is eBay. I have done 1/2 dozen quilts using vintage embroidered blocks. If only I knew how to post pictures of them, I would.

Sewbizgirl, your quilt is gorgeous!