Need advice wall hanging quilt

[LindaSusieQuilts]

I have this wall hanging to quilt for a hand quilter.(yipes yeah.. hand quilter)

I dont want to lose the butterflies..

or take away from them. How would you quilt it?

Linda Susie:(

http://community.webshots.com/user/lindasusiequilts

[sdrogers]

Hi Linda

Gawsh....I just spent ooodles of time responding to your post, pressed send and I wasnt logged in! GRRRR! Sew, rather then try to re-create what I originally wrote, can you tell us what *type* of quilting you want to concentrate on? IE: freehand, panto, custom???

Thank you.

[JudyL]

Linda Susie: I sent you an e-mail but I'll post it here:

Here's what I would do:

Look at this picture -- if it doesn't open, click on the bottom where it says "view full size" -- http://community.webshots.com/photo/48632180/138385758tsmtEi

See what I did in the body . . my version of McTavishing? Not the stipple around the leave vine but what's on top of the border in the picture. I would do that in the background, stitch in the ditch around the butterfly. Then in the butterfly wings, I would use a metallic gold thread and do spikey things into the wings -- here's what I call spikey things: http://community.webshots.com/photo/60274663/63664075Uqbzqb

Then, in the purple part (is that the abdomen??), I would use purple thread and do cross-hatching (from one square to the next so it doesn't require any marking).

In the checkered border, I would outline the blocks to make it look like a checkerboard.

[LindaSusieQuilts]

I dont do [pantograms yet... I do free hand so far... stipples and simple stuff.