Shannon's Quilt

Look what the UPS dude delivered about supper time.  Shannon Moe and I had been chatting on FB.  She's an old friend and a quilter who had inherited this applique project but had decided it was beyond her interest and/or ability.  Sight unseen, I said I'd be happy to give it a go.

This panel ( 2 x 6 sections) is finished.  There is a matching panel that has not been started, and a 1 square wide panel with 2 squares finished.  The pattern is these 4 panels repeated.

Instead of templates, the shapes are printed in white on this fabric with 1/8" seam allowance.  Unfortunately, the kit was made over 40 years ago and the lines are extremely faint to invisible.

 I am sure of the dating of the kit b/c I have a quilt made by my husband's grandmother that has this EXACT green calico.  It was also a kit.  She made "wedding quilts" for all her grandchildren in the 1960's.  When we were married in 1990, Harley Dude's dad, Papa Bear, pulled a quilt out of the closet that had been made when my DH was a teen for his wedding.  It is embroidered with his g'mas name and date: 1969.  It still had all the blue dotted lines for quilting on it when I received it.  I was pleasantly surprised that they washed out after all that time.

Shannon's quilt has assorted stains...probably water.  Anyone have advice on removing these stains?  I have similar ones on some of my g'ma's cross-stitch table cloths.  The stains can't be dealt with until after it's quilted since the quilting lines are printed on the fabric.  That requires a tremendous leap of faith...that after all that additional applique and quilting....either the stains will come out or you won't really care.