This happened to me. Thankfully it was just a lap sized quilt but I had appliqued the whole thing. It was a pond pattern with turtles, fish etc. Someone on another board suggested I send it to one of her friends to quilt. It came back quilted in ripples, unfortunatly all the rows of stitching were evenly spaced but one and that ruined the whole quilt for me. it was so obvious. It was for my daughter because she had a pond so I gave it to her anyway but just hate the quilt everytime I see it. I'm having one quilted now for my grandaughter's graduation present and I'll be paying top dollar locally to have it quilted. It's worth it.