Originally Posted by
Chooklady
Thank you for your replies.... I am not sure if I asked the right questions though from what you have all said. Should I stitch in the ditch BEFORE I sew my lines as a design.... my bad
I would not do both SID and lines as a design. To me, it would look to chaotic on the back since your pieces change directions so frequently. You wouldn't easily see the design because it would be interrupted with SID lines. I'd do one or the other. Well, personally, I'd do just lines because I think that will bring out the piecing nicely. I'm definitely not the expert around here though.
If you feel like you need to anchor the quilt before doing your design, maybe you could just SID straight down and straight across to frame the blocks rather than each piece. That would interrupt your design a bit, but depending on what you do with your straight lines, it might look quite nice.