I also hate the actual quilting of a project. I do it because I can't afford to send the quilts out to a LAer. What I have found the easiest is to do some straight line quilting through the seams.....not in the ditch. I love the herringbone stitch when doing this.
http://csews.com/hand-sewing-2/hand-sewing.
I also like a double needle and do the stitching so that one line of quilting is on one side of the seam and the other on the other seam side...the double needle spans the seams.