The 80's called......

"The 80's called....and they want their quilt back."

{Quote from my friend Bonnie when she saw this quilt}

I'm currently working on a quilt from a pattern called Eclipse.

It's all done in batiks, and there are 20 different fabrics in this quilt.

Choosing 20 was challenging.

That's a heckuva lot of bolts.

I'm working on this one as a special request from my quilt shop, 

but I chose the fabrics, 

and I'm choosing the quilting style.

Here's how I'm quilting it:

I'm hoping it's going to give a really good mesh across the quilt and tame it a bit...

I'm about halfway through the first pass (takes 2 to make the pattern)

and so just for comparison, here's part that's quilted:

and here's part that's unquilted:

So what do you think? 

Is it headed in the right direction?