You could try tieing the quilt with the perle cotton! I did one queen size that way and just love it! My idea was to let the fabrics and pattern speak, not the quilting. I was going to remove the ties later, but I love it that way. Mine were about 4" apart. You can pick certain points on the pattern or just do an all over grid. I used a large needle and sometimes pliers.
Originally Posted by
wishfulthinking
Thanks for your replies. I did a little test quilting after I posted this and have decided against it. The main reason is the fabrics are so busy that the quilting didn't really add anything. I was using white thread and it looked good on the white blocks, but not so good on the busy print blocks. The quilting itself wasn't so difficult, but I just didn't feel like the quilt was worthy of this much hand work.