Originally Posted by Sewfine
These are some beautiful quilts. The last two close up, how do you get the design raised above the quilt? Be nice now, I am a beginner and would love to learn.
Sewfine
He Sewfine,
Of course we will be nice! There are a couple of different ways to get motifs to raise up like that. Trapunto, or type of batting combined with really dense background quilting. Trapunto is when the quilter puts additional batting behing a motif before assembling the sandwich and carefully trims away so the extra batting is just under the motif they want to pop.
Some battings really pop as well, like higher loft polyester and wool.
In the particular quilt you are asking about I got up close and personal with it and do not believe it was trapunto because the motif didn't look stuffed as much as trapunto does. I believe this quilter used either wool or poly batting. She quilted her main motifs then she did very dense background quilting to make that motif pop.