Beautiful quilt!! What fabric did you use for the printing? Printed Treasures will soften up a bit, but the June Taylor stuff I have used never does. The fabric used for printing is a tighter weave so it has a different hand than quilting fabric. Did you set the image according to the directions -- some want you to rinse in water and some want you to iron the fabric before wetting it. If you wash it by hand and you used a good printer fabric you should be OK.