Keeping with my notion of 'Simple and Stunning', I tried to do just that. In quilting this I was concerned about losing the 3-d effect in the background so didn't want to quilt it too densely. Thank you Suzanne Young for coming through with the right threads! Decided the grey was probalby best, but needed to be a bit darker. Used 3 different threads in the curved lines: black (upper right), grey (lines lower of the hearts) and a white WonderFil (lower left). Need to outline the hearts with quilting (just outside the heart) but need to use clear or smoke thread. Definitely want to do the straight line on all borders in the real quilt. Motif quilting in all 4 sides and straight line in the borders based on the fabric motif in the left and bottom borders. I quilted the Mi Amore in the large heart. Quilting half of two of the hearts and not the other half just to see how they would set up. I experimented with the quilting a bit on the hearts. Not sure if I want to do all of that on the real thing. I then added a layer of wool and a layer of cotton batting and then the backing. I also wrote on the heart with a fabric pen to test how that would work. There are several different ideas tried with these four hearts, including machine (black heart only) and hand applique (left to right) cotton batt sewn into the seam, batting added behind the quilt top as if it is being trapunto'd, no stuffing, stuffed with hobbs 80/20.
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