[quote=dunster]Shelley, your quilt is gorgeous. I love the quilted bear paw. I used (mostly) batiks in mine, and steam-a-seam lite. The water soluble stabilizer is a great idea if I have problems with the needle sticking - and I think I even have a little bit of it on hand. So you quilted through all the layers at once, without first stitching down the fused top??? I actually took a class when I started this quilt, but we never got to the actual quilting part.
Nope, didn't stitch it down with the DSM (regular sewing machine). By the time I realized there was a problem, the whole top was finished. There were places where there were 4 layers of ultrasuade on top of fabric, plus the batting (I think wool...) and the back. I thought there might be problems, but it quilted like butter.