Spring Splendor

As noted in my last entry, I don't often make quilts that coincide with the current season. I don't have any tulips left but there are poppies all over the city right now. Grapes aren't in season but the center panel, a John Flynn project, has grapes as the central theme. Since working on trapunto (not Flynn's method) is the point of this quilt, I stuck grapes and grape leaves in the border, adapted from several sources including Nancy Pearson.

So at this point what you see is the top, no batting, no quilting. The particular method I am trying is to layer the spots that are intended to be stuffed at the end. I outlined the lines on John Flynn's center over some wool batting, more or less cut away technique, before I attached the plain borders and cut away the excess batting. Before I started the applique I basted a piece of muslin on the back of the center to protect the batting during the applique process.. Between that and the applique, everything is sort of saggy at this point but I do expect everything to be flat and straight at the end. Of course I always expect that but this piece has special issues. To top all of those off, it is just pinned to a quilt on the wall adding to the "loosey goosey" nature of the situation.