Patriotic Quilt Progress

So I've been working on my friend's Patriotic Quilt and the trapunto words in the border are starting to take shape.  They were too subtle and the font was pretty thin for the quilting design I chose so I'm going to have to outline the words in some way.

I couldn't wait to see how it looked without the water soluble thread outlining it so the "O" is darker because it's wet.   Overall, I'm loving it.