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Looking for photos of old time shadow quilting/Yarn is pulled through the back to color in the design.?

You take 2 pieces of fabrics...draw your design on the top one and hand quilt around the image...Then turn to the back and using a large needle, pull dark colored yarns through from the hand quilting stitches to the other side of the design to color in your design.

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1. This is called shadow trapunto. Trapunto is the method of "stuffing" the quilting to create raised patterns, and is used a lot in wholecloth quilts. The first link is to Google Images of shadow trapunto. The other links are to instructions for the process. Karen McTavish, a well known quilter, includes discussion of shadow trapunto in her classes - a photo of one of her quilts is in the second link.