As I mentioned the other day, I did all of the satin stitching over the preceding few days and was on to the quilting.
If you make the photo (left) a little bigger you can see the quilting around the eye and in the orange character.
I used 50 weight Aurifil, mostly because I have a lot of colors, but also because I didn’t want it to be shiny. You may be able to see the diachromatic thread peeking through the orange. I don’t mind that little bit of shine. In a show, the light will reflect off of those small bits and, with any luck, make the piece shimmer or glitter a little.
I am thinking of using free motion quilting on the black part. I want to practice and test the machine before I do, though.
I have the BAMQG personal challenge to do and that will be a good free motion quilting test.
Really nice echo quilting, I like it a lot, Jaye! What pattern are you gonna do in the black area? Pebbles come to my mind from all those circles 🙂
I quilted it in black on the black. I tried to avoid the white. I did a cross between a grid and the pebble design.