Koi, Second Side
This is the back side of the koi quilt. Imagine that you are lying on the bottom of the pond, looking up at the kois' bellies and through the surface of the water to the sky! The koi on this side are ever so slightly smaller than the ones on the surface. Like the ones on the top of the quilt, they were machine quilted / free-motion embroidered before being machine appliqued, and fused the fins and tails. When I hand-applique the koi on the top, I made sure to cover the machine stitching lines, and quilted the fins and tails that are on the water in one pass.