LOVE your quilt - I am no help on how to do it - I usually take mine to a quilter here and she decides lol Just looking at it though I think I would just go around enach shape-otherwise I think you may lose some of the definition of the pictures-Also if you do too much quilting in the word section you wont be able to read that either. Just my opinion - I have never worked with minky before though - let us know what you decide - I am very curious - thanks for sharing