I had a fair amount of prep work before I could start the quilting process. I had the idea of a square spiral in the white blocks (see the post before this) and a scattering of specialty stitches in the colored blocks. Here’s an example of the specialty stitches I looked at.

I really liked the shoe and Mike did too, so I put together a test block sandwich and tried the shoe just to see what would happen.

Not so much, huh?! I think the density of the batting (I wanted to try a high loft batting) causes the shoe to shift and really doesn’t work out all that well. Ah well. I’ll do stitch in the ditch for the colored blocks.

I began the quilting process on Thursday, November 16 and it’s definitely going to be a slog. My shoulders and waist are getting a workout shoving the quilt back & forth around my machine. Maybe I’ll have all the quilting done in my next update. Wish me luck !!

The fourth clue in the mystery quilt arrived and it looks like this