Originally Posted by
Tartan
It is going to be beautiful. If you are sending it to out to be hand quilted, perhaps they might have some suggestions. Maybe stitch around the flowers and then echo stitch out like Hawaiian quilts? If it was machine stitching, I would suggest a small stipple to make the flowers puff up. I imagine if you asked hand quilters to quilt a small stipple in the background around the flowers they would stare at you with looks of horror on their faces!
I know what you mean. The pattern shows it machine quilted, but for some reason, I thought I would get this one hand quilted. The book showed it heavily stippled around the flower blocks to emphasize them and it was very effective. When I do small projects, that SID thing is a challenge. I can only imagine what it would be on a machine!!