I've been having a blast with this quilt. It just took a while to get started. The background is now finished. I probably won't use it this wide - maybe 2/3 of it. The other 1/3 will be a nice neutral piece for some busy room.
Using Nicole's idea that I love, I padded the backs of some of the fabric to create some depth in the quilt. For example, the tongue has two pieces of batting, so it'll protrude the most. The rest of the jowls have one piece of batting, and so one. There's no batting on the areas that need to look 'recessed.'
From there it's just loads of thread painting to add all the different colors. The final step will be to quilt the face onto the background, and do more thread painting.
