Need some advice on quilting this one...
I am making this quilt, design by Sarah Bissell, for my daughter and SIL for Christmas. Not doing anything fancy, just SID so far. I have quilted the first two rows of blocks, as you can see in the photo. On each one, that leaves a 5"X 6" rectangle unquilted. The batting is cotton-- Warm and White. My dilemma is whether to leave the 5x6 rectangles unquilted, or quilt some design there... By quilting in them it emphasized that one piece over the other pieces in the block, which have no surface quilting, only SID. By not quilting them, is the cotton going to bunch or shift or tear up? I know the batting says you can quilt 10" apart, but we all know that's too far apart for that kind of batting.
What do you think? I'm tempted to leave the blocks as they are now, but don't want those big ones to tear up or bunch inside...