Is this enough quilting?
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Unless your blue hexies are each 4" wide, you're good. If they are wide, you could outline each of them through the center.
The rule about the 8" is the width between stitch lines, not the length of your stitch lines. Some people will even stitch only vertical quilting lines with nothing horizontal at all & it turns out beautifully. Your plan looks really nice. Hope you post a pic when it's all quilted.
The rule about the 8" is the width between stitch lines, not the length of your stitch lines. Some people will even stitch only vertical quilting lines with nothing horizontal at all & it turns out beautifully. Your plan looks really nice. Hope you post a pic when it's all quilted.
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JeanneS's description is how I think of it too. My gran tied all of her quilts and the way she taught me is that if you drew an imaginary circle around each tie, that circle should touch another tie in each direction (top, bottom, left, right). Her batting had a 3" max, so when she was teaching me, she found a six-inch wide plate and that was my "tester" to make sure I was spacing things properly.
So translating that to machine quilting and your 8" quilting allowance batting...unless you can fit an 8" plate somewhere on your quilt with zero quilting touching it, you're totally good to go!
So translating that to machine quilting and your 8" quilting allowance batting...unless you can fit an 8" plate somewhere on your quilt with zero quilting touching it, you're totally good to go!
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As long as you have stitching along each side of the areas outlined in green, you will be fine. The recommended quilting distance is satisfied by the green lines because they are so long and close together.
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