Originally Posted by
quiltingshorttimer
Fantastic! Both of you did a super job? Question---did you double the wool bat on the entire quilt or just on the applique pieces (like tapunto?)
I doubled the bat on the entire thing. The beauty of wool is it has wonderful loft but will quilt down pretty flat without getting all stiff. So by doing dense background quilting and ditching everything - like every single individual tree is ditched and every feather on the heron is ditched - it really gets the applique to pop up like trapunto. More and more show quilters and LA quilters have started using double bats to get the effect of trapunto without all the hard work. I have double batted a lot of quilts. Even bed quilts that are utilitarian. It really gives the quilting wonderful definition as well as getting elements to pop like trapunto.