Originally Posted by
Cindy60545
Are you going to give this to your LAer? If so, don't do trapunto. Have them use a double bat. Cotton on the backing side, wool on top, then stitch it. It gives you trapunto without all the headache. Can't wait to see this one finished!
Cindy,
i all ready have done the trapunto work with the blocks. I did that before I assembled all the blocks. And I'm going to quilt this one with cross hatches in the blocks, echoing the borders, and then I'll have to decided what to do with the outer borders. I used a very high loft batting for the trapunto work; I was afraid that the wool/cotton batting would not give me enough lift. I still might do the wool/cotton to get a trapunto effect for the decorative borders. Depends on on much energy I have when sandwiching and the quilting on my Janome 7700. I've got the top done and I'm going to rest on this one for a while as I'm looking for ideas for the outer borders.