Mitch's mom

Instead of doing straight lines and cross hatching what about sewing around each square. You have large and small ones so it will look great on the back and you don't have to do any marking just follow the outside edge of each block. Easy peasey.

kastolzm

I decided to SID for now. I think I may wait out the need to quilt the large squares and see how it holds up. I used the invisible thread for both top and bottom piecing. It was a little finagling [word?] to manuever fabric through the small space on a DM but it wasn't too bad. I just roll and fold. I basted it pretty well so I only spread out the area in front of me to be nice and smooth while the area around that looks like a mountain of fabric! Thanks!!!

jlm5419

I quilted a t-shirt quilt for my DDIL on my Singer 66. Because the t-shirts were all from music concerts, I used a treble clef as the design. I created a template and traced the design over and over all over the quilt. She loved it. Two other t-shirt quilts I made were for the children of a military man who died. The sashing was red, white, and blue, so I decided stars would be appropriate, so I traced stars here and there across the quilts. These quilts were quilted on my 15" Bailey. I wanted the stars to stand out, so between them I used loops all over the background. This same idea could be used on your domestic machine also.

Dina

I am a real fan of stitching in the ditch. I suspect you will be pleased with the results.

Dina