Originally Posted by
Tartan
The quilting will take out some ripples. If there are a lots of bumps, a higher loft batting helps and an all over meander or similar can camouflage a lot.
I had a customer's quilt once that she said she knew it was a mess but to quilt as best I could. It was a large star(can't remember name) that puckered up in the middle. I used fluffy batting and added a small amount of additional batting where the pucker was the worst. It came out pretty good and she was very happy at the way it turned out.
I used a large, swirly pantograph to quilt it.