haha! yes it is spiders! to go with the dark Nevermore theme! and the fabric is all from the same line. The biggest challenge was all the time it took to fancy cut every single thing in this quilt.
I thought the same thing about the tying and i tied right where you said, in the corners in the sashing which were about 6.5" apart all around. I just wanted to make sure that would be sufficient for other types of batting, too. thank you for your help!