Fox Quilting Part 1

The background area immediately surrounding the fox is relatively dark and I wish it to stay that way with choice of thread, so I'm selecting a near matching color/value.

I've decided to quilt fairly close together so to knock down the background enough to really pop snow forward.
I come close to the edge of the fox contour without touching the white. I try to use graceful connections beside other areas. I "almost" never come straight to a stop at the edge of an adjoining area but instead turn the quilting line parallel to the contour edge... sort of the S curve idea. It makes a cleaner finished edge to the quilting pattern.

The snow really puffs up. It's may be a little more puffy than needed, but it looks pretty good.