I spray basted the layers and did some stitch-in-the-ditch stabilizing. The free motion is driving me crazy, though, because there are so many seams and intersections. Normally I use a Bernina Stitch Regulator on my Bernina Aurora 440 QE. It does NOT like white tone on tone fabric, and it does not like seams and intersections. I quickly went back to using the darning foot. It's going to be a L....O....N.....G process!
This is the finished top.
This is a close-up of one corner.
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The pieced backing has colorful hedgehogs and leftover units from making the quilt.
This is the center of the backing. I plan to make the pieced unit my label, and I will write the pertinent information into the lighter parts of it.
Here the pictures show that I am trying to add some curves to the blue units that form the large circles. My stitching gets bumped out of line at almost every intersection!!
Fortunately, I've learned from experience that once all the quilting is done, those small mistakes rarely show up to the casual viewer. :)
