Originally Posted by
love 2 sew
I agree with Beth. I think this is a quilt where the piecing is the star of the show, not the quilting.
Joan
I agree. You want just a tiny shade dark for the thread not to show. I would just stitch in the ditch. If you have a stencil for the center of the sawtooth star, I would practice the design then try quilting the center. Try to look ahead when you are FMQ. Don't look at the needle but to where you want to steer the fabric to next. Like driving a car. You look further down the road than just in front of your car. Be sure if you need to stop to reposition your fabric. do it only at a cross point never on a curve-it will show. I see good effort on your part but it might help to take a quilting class at the LQS if you have one. I was already doing very good with FMQ on a DSM but I excelled more when I took a class from Harriet Hargrave. I noticed that one of the quilts in the current valentine contest has a similar star so you might what to check out how that quilter did their star. I would quilt something small in the brown borders, maybe a small continuos simple heart. You CAN always mark the back of your quilt if the front is too busy and sew from the back. Good Luck and keep up the practicing.