do you think this is enough quilting?
#1
do you think this is enough quilting?
My quilt looks like this. The heavy black lines show where I've quilted it so far. The largest areas unquilted, which are the squares that have 3 strips, are 6" square. Is that enough? I didn't really want to do every 2" across the whole thing but if I go with diagonals there will be areas where it's very close together (the corner areas). The batting is warm & natural which says you can go 10" so I know in that regard it's enough. Just not sure if a 6" square unquilted area will cause problems later. eta: I don't free motion and I prefer to keep the quilting ends at the edges of the quilt so I don't have to worry about burying ends or fiddling with stitch lengths. I'm using a serpentine stitch to quilt.
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That is enough quilting for warm and natural. Looks great!
Edit: The diagonal of a 6" square is about 8.5" which is still less than the 10" distance required by the batting. So you are okay.
Edit: The diagonal of a 6" square is about 8.5" which is still less than the 10" distance required by the batting. So you are okay.
Last edited by Prism99; 05-03-2014 at 02:41 PM.
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I've used that batting for many years - and with up to 8 inches space between quilt lines i have never once had a problem. Some of the quilts are at least 10 years old and have had a fair number of washings.
#9
The only problem with putting the x is that if I don't want to start seams in the middle of quilt I'll end up with some really close together in the parts where there are 2" squares. This quilt will probably be gifted at some point.
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