I have been working on some practice quilt sandwiches. I want to learn to do some of my own machine quilting. I have done some meandering, which needs much practice. I plan to keep working on that. I have also done some SITD, which seems to be much easier. My question is this, how much SITD practice do you all recommend before tackling a small quilt? I have done several individual blocks, and seem to be doing okay. Of course, I get out of the ditch every now and then, but I am getting better. When you all quilt a quilt using SITD, do you add some other quilting or just leave it with the quilting in the seam lines? When you SITD do you just use your regular straight stitch settings and quarter inch foot? I recently bought a new PFAFF machine and I am still not sure when to use the IDT feature. Should I engage the IDT when I SITD?
I really look forward to the day when I can say I did the WHOLE thing, instead of explaining that someone else did the quilting.