son's quilt top two thirds together

Thanks for all the encouraging questions and comments.  

This monster will finish 90 X 90.  My son is over 6 ft tall and this is the largest endeavor I have done of this nature.  Each year I do a memory quilt for a special graduate in my life.  I have been doing this for the last 6 years but they are usually 12 inch blocks joined in a 4 X 6 pattern.  These blocks are 15 inch square and the pattern is 6 X 6.  

To get the BS stuff together and attach the patches from all the camps and special events he has attended, I decided to do groupings of 2 X 2 to make a larger "block".

I did applique his patches to the quilt.  This was the best way (I felt) to incorporate all the camps he attended during his scout life.   Actually used a mending zig zag stitch with matching thread.  The patch from Jamboree represented our council and was a huge hexagon with six pieces to go on each side which formed it into a circle.  I ended up "floating" them around the grouping because of space.

Gin, if you are going to do something similar with your son's things from his Eagle ceremony, I would advise using spray adhesive to help with placement and to hold them where you would like them.