Originally Posted by pal

I wonder if you could cut out the excess white, so that you have a border and a center - and applique the embroidery on blue - or applique blue over the plain white, just using the embroidered parts. I think that is called "shadow quilting". It would be a lot of work, but I think well worth it. It has probably been washed enough times so that it wouldn't shrink any more. It's beautiful!!