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I have stitched in the ditch on most (90%) of my nieces quilt. (The picture is the computer drawing I made, to design ut) I was going to fill in the zig zags with straight line quilting, but it didn’t look good, and I ripped it out. I’m getting frustrated with it, and just want to finish it, but it’s a gift, so it needs to look nice. Without taking out the stitch in the ditch over the entire queen sized quilt, how bad would it look to quilt parallel lines through it? Should I just leave the stitch in the ditch? The pieces were large (9”x3”), will stitching in the ditch be enough for the quilt to survive heavy use from a child? I’m also a beginner, this will be my 5th completed quilt, and my largest, and suggestions appreciated!