Batting question

Poly batting is always safe when you have to leave large areas unquilted, Jerry; and it also has the advantage of being very easy to hand quilt. That said, I did a bluework quilt (here: ) a couple of years ago, and I did quilt through the embroidered areas, just to keep things sort of even. I quilted around the teapots and some of the motifs on the teapots, and then I also put a diagonal grid in the background of each block. Could you do something similar?

I've done the same thing with embroidered blocks. I've also done some where I just quilted close to the main motif with thread to match the background. It makes the design pop a bit, but isn't really noticeable. If you aren't going to quilt the blocks, choose a batting that says that quilting lines may be at least 6" apart. Warm'n'Natural or Warm'n'White are two that would work.

Julia in MN