Yes Iminei, I'm burying the thread ends using the lassoo method and there's not really so many of them. I just hate the job.
To get a reasonable degree of consistency between motifs, I drew one out onto baking parchment, stacked up a total of 5 layers of parchment and using an old blunt needle sewed the design without thread in the machine. Then each layer was well pinned to the quilt sandwich, which I had already stabilised with temporary lines of stitching, with the rough side uppermost. I can then follow the design without having to mark the fabric in any way.