Originally Posted by tapper

Thank you all so much for the suggestions/ideas/tips.
I have decided to do an Irish Chain in light or medium blue with white.
For the actual quilting, most Google images show a design in the white square and diagonal straight-line quilting through the chain blocks. I'm fine with doing that but what color thread should I use? I'd like to use white thread but would that look odd going through the blue squares?
I'm such a newbie!!