cblong03 Shakespeare in the Park - My niece is getting married on 8/8/10, and this is her wedding quilt. It's mostly batiks (who knows how many different fabrics / solid purple batik backing), wool batting, and machine quilted with nylon on top and Bottom Line in the bobbin. The rebel in me decided to do concentric circles a half-inch apart, rather than continuous line spirals, or something like that (What the blankity-blank-blank was I thinking! I'll be snipping threads from circle-jumping for weeks, because I got lazy and didn't do it as I went along.) I started it in July09, finished the top in Jan10, and just finished the quilting this week (about an hour before my guild meeting...just in time to bring it for show and tell). I still have to block it and put the binding and label on, but I thrilled I'm going to have it finished on time!!! Since the pic was taken, I've soaked it in ice water to remove the water-soluble blue and white markers (the cold water in AZ is NOT cold enough to do the job), washed it in hot water with Synthropal with two dye catcher sheets (I think I prewashed the backing, but nothing else, plus added 4 tons of starch along the way.), and dried it in a hot dryer. No need to call the quilt police. I got the effect I was going for, lots of puckery goodness and texture that hides my still-developing-confident-beginner-free-motion-quilting skills (long winded way of saying my circles aren't the smoothest). No, there isn't bleeding of the dark onto the light, and if there is, I can't find it. I slept under it last night, just to see if it works, and it does...haha! I'll wash it again, after the binding, as my cat insists on sitting on my lap, when I hand-stitch the back, and the fabrics could be a bit softer. My theory is enjoy the quilt and use it until it's nothing but shreds! If my niece puts it up in a closet, I'd be crushed!