Trinket Quilting Stop

 

At first I thought I'd bought some Aurifil thread in the right color but then I realized it was a much larger spool, actually a pretty large 5,500 yard cone. I'm using this cone of rayon thread that I picked up off of the Free Table at a BAMQ Sew Day. The color is INTNS MAROON maybe that means Intense Maroon? I also picked up one in a lighter purple but that's too light. I wound bobbins so that it would match on the back.

Here's how it looks on the front. I'm starting out with just out of the ditch quilting along the horizontals. I did three rows out of sixteen. I think I'll do the verticals as well, and then we'll see from there on what else. Maybe a design of some type in the solid squares? X marks the spot or ???

It's not going to look perfect on the back of course, but also I need to remember that it's the back.
Alas, a tuck was stitched into the backing. I think I'll un-sew this part and re-stitch this part of the quilted line. I also have to face facts that the whole shebang needs to be re-ironed as well before I doing any more quilting. It just got too wrinkly in the storage box.