Thank you for your replies. the quilt I am working on is basically a twin and I am afraid of turning that right side out and then trying to get it flat. Not sure how big of an opening I should leave....I have never tied a quilt successfully. But GailG thanks for mentioning the decorative stitches. I may try that. I have some snowflake stencils that I am going to use for at least some of the quilting (I mean the fabric is Frozen so it has to have snowflakes
) but doing decorative stitches might be the trick I need... now I just have to muster up the courage