Jane,
You used cotton batting, right? Quality thread like Aurifil is not supposed to noticeably shrink. I'm hoping to use wool batting for my quilt. Cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter & attracts fewer dust mites than cotton.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess, depending on how I look at it), I was surfing the web last night looking at whole cloth pictures & came across this stunning beauty done on RK Radiance fabric with silk threads:
http://www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com/m...ilt-pics-047c/
It is just stunning! So now, of course, I have one more sample to make! I'm sure that will quilt up beautifully (obviously! since it won 1st prize at QuiltWeek), but want to road test it to see how it does with me sleeping with/on it. Gonna make a pillow sham to make sure it doesn't get too impossibly stained when used as bedding. Other downside is that it needs to be hand washed, supposedly, to keep its luster. But silk is supposed to be the best fabric for people with dust allergies so I guess I'll see (wonder if it still works since it's also part cotton).