Tartan, I thank you for adding more suggestions for me to have to figure all this out. I will look up a picture of the invisible ladder stitch, but I think I know what it is.
My son and daughter in law have a beautiful queen size pieced quilt that my mother made them when she was still with us. It is pieced in yellows and blues. So this quilt will be the one I will have made them from me. Since it is for their camper I am putting on the back a Tennessee License Plate Piece of fabric that many used in the row by row quilts. He loves that idea. Then of course a name/info tag sewn on. They are big time campers.
I will let you all know how it turns out. He knows I always speak of the quilting board.
Susan
