Old Yeller

This much white space cries out for showy quilting, and I had a field day on this huge quilt. I thought double cross hatching the background of  the applique blocks would be really good, but shortly after I started, I was intoning, "What was I thinking?" It was an unbelievable amount of work! It's a rare day when the client says I can mark her quilt top, and I was eager to try out Blue Line Eraser. The directions say not to mark heavily, and I didn't think I was, but it took repeated applications to get the marks out. And the fabric miraculously didn't bleed. I opted for Hobbs wool batting so I'd get a trapunto effect without all the work. And gosh, this was so much work. But it's a wholecloth on the back, and that's always worth it. And here is a detail shot of the border.