The QILT (Quilt It Like This) is Finished! & Correcting Oopsies

I got permission from my client to go buck wild on the border of her quilt.  So I did, just putting in loops and the occasional hearts.  Now that I look at it, maybe my other hearts were better, but I surely appreciate the free flowing quilting that I got to do - quilting left to right, top to bottom, right to left, and bottom to top:


Here's what I ended up putting in the border after ripping out those other stitches:


Now if you look closely, or maybe not so closely, you'll see the holes left behind by the previous lines of stitching.  Here's a better picture from the back:


Now, if this were one of my quilts, I'd just throw it in the washer after the binding went on and the holes would close up on their own.

However, this is a customer quilt, and I'm not allowed to just throw stuff in the washer.  So to take the holes out, I sprayed a piece of white muslin with water and swiped it gently over the quilt:


Like it never happened!  Now, if you need to do the same thing, remember to use WHITE muslin, spray the MUSLIN not the quilt, don't saturate the quilt with water, and never rub from a darker color onto a lighter color.  Make sure the quilt is completely dry before you fold it up.  All of this just keeps you from making an irreparable mistake by accidentally transferring color to different parts of the quilt.

Here's the back of the quilt so you can really appreciate all the custom quilting that went into this:



Here are some other cool parts of this quilt:




I sure hope my customer likes it and she'll still be my customer after this one.  :)

To endless possibilities,

Ebony