It is your quilt, so putting your designs in it only shows more of YOU in the quilt. Go for it. Every quilt is made one stitch at a time. Enjoy your creativity and listen only to your quilter's heart.

I say go for it!

Anyone ever considered couching something to your quilt, like ribbon or yarn? Might be fun to try.....would only worry about washing. Might try on a wall quilt.

I have quilted several baby quilts with my decorative stitches. The serpentine stitch is one of my favorites to use for machine quilting.

It is your quilt and what you want. Do it. Be sure to take a pic for us.

I am just finishing a table topper with some narrow borders and just read in a quilt magazine about using decorative stitches from sewing machine so I am going to break the quilt "law" and put decorative stitching in one of my narrow borders!

Hopefully, my comment will not be a repeat (I have not read all pages) but I use my serpentine stitch to cross-hatch most charity quilts. It works great, is fast and looks pretty on the back. I have also used it within borders.

You won't know how you like it until you try it!

Could I see a few photos of the use of serpentine as a quilting stitch? I am having a hard time visualizing how that would work/look on a quilt. Thanks.

I use the serpentine stitch a lot. And get compliments too!