I'm a cross stitcher that wants to get into quilting so the only thing that I have quilted is a couple of my pieces, a halloween alphabet and a Santa I just did. Even though I had already outlined the actual pattern I went ahead and outlined them again with quilting thread. They turned out better than I had hoped for. I'll post pics of both. The backing on both was a dark fabric and didn't show off the backstitch which was a bit messy, not as pretty as traditional quilting but the front was fantastic. I'd try hand quilting some of the inner outline of the actual pattern. And by the way, you did a fantastic job on the cross stitch. So very time consuming but so worth it.