i can not afford to send my quilts out to be quilted or rent a long arm for a day so i took me husbands chalk line tool and had my daughter help me and i put straight lines starting from one corner stretched it to oppisite side diagonally and marked it every 4 inches from that line then sewed that with straight stitch then marked oppisite dirrection and sewed when finished it was a 4 inch diamond all over quilt i did 5 that way for christmas