To stitch the layers together I stitched through beads and buttons, under embellishments and along seams hiding the stitches by coming out ot the seam at a slight angle and back in at a slight angle.
Here you can see the stitch because I am holding the seam up with my thumb.
But when the seam is relaxed the stich can not be seen.
At the edges I folded the border lining back and did a row of tacking stitches along the seam.
I then flipped the border lining back into place and basted the edges with big tacking stitches, finishing with a row close to the edges.
When I made the quilt sandwich I left the back and batting larger than the top, after asting around the edges I cut them all to be level with the top.
And Here is the messy back so that you can see that I have done more in some areas than others depending on what was on the blocks that needed extra support, What you can’t see is that because I knew I was covering it I carried the thread for several inches between stitches, it is messy but much quicker than having to stop and start and hide all the thread ends.
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