I was going to suggest this as a solution. It definitely needs more quilting....and since you are not sure of your fm/this would be the easiest for you and would definitely be a good finish for your beautiful quilt.

I love your quilt! It looks warm and comforting. Personally, I would FMQ in the empty spaces, but you said you were not comfortable with doing that. That's ok. I like the idea of more echo quilting or the grid quilting in the blocks. I think that would make the cups really show up. As for in the cups, the heart would be nice or maybe a 'C'. It's a great quilt and it would be a shame to have the batting bunch or shred for lack of quilting. Good luck and show us the finished results.

So, so cute. SID and outlining the cups should be enough quilting. Some cross hatch stitching might be nice too or just hatch a different direction in each block.

I really think you need to add quite a bit more quilting. That is a personal feeling
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I love your quilt-- so cute! If it were mine, I'd want to see more quilting. The SID is invisible... It would be amazing if you could fill in the backgrounds behind the cups with some small meandering, but if that sounds like too much work (or quilting) you could straight stitch 1/2" or 1" on either side of all the block seams, as someone on the first page suggested. This will give a "grid" look to the quilting and also fill in more of the empty background space of the blocks. Any which way, it's adorable!

It is very nice.

This is what I would suggest too. I like the frame idea. Much easier for you than trying to do more echo quilting or stippling. You can pull the tape off and reposition it multiple times. If 2" makes it too close to your cup, try 1 1/2 inch.

If your batting says 2 to 4 inches, I
would measure..say from the corner of the square to the cup.

I have that same music symbol fabric

Love it, it's enough to keep it together...it's entirely up to you if you want to do any more quilting on it. Some people prefer to do a lot of quilting, but as a beginner, I think you did great.

Oh no!!!! I'm a dork! I love your quilt! I think I would echo 2 more times around the outside of the cups and maybe once inside them. I would then mark 1 or 1 1/2 inches from the SITD lines you've already done and stitch there as well. You've done a truly lovely job on your first quilt.

You know what would really kick this quilt up a notch? Some x-rated meandering!! Lol just kidding....did you read the previous post.
Cute quilt by the way. I think it looks good the way it is.

This quilt is darling!! Here's what I would do for further quilting. Go get some NEW 1 inch masking tape...don't use old. Put a piece of tape along the seamline on the top of the block. Make this tape go ALL the way across the quilt. Now put another piece of tape right below the one you just placed. Basically you have two pieces of tape with a seam between them. Now go to the outside of each piece of tape and sew straight across. Do this for all horizontal and vertical seam lines. It will be a fast grid, it will take up some of the interior of each block where there is no quilting and it should take care of your quilting needs. Good luck and smile! You're going to be a good quilter.

Love your quilt! More quilting needed. Maybe more echo quilting around the mugs........and a spiral, inspired by the steam, could work...have the spiral begin at the intersection of four block corners and enclose part of each block. IMHO, curves would be the way to go....SID makes me nervous. LOL

Nice quilt, and I agree with this suggestion.

better to be safe, than sorry , and wash the quilt and have a problem and then you would cry buckets.

I love it!

I like the idea of the echo Quilting - more rows about 2 inches apart following the Shape of the Mug or some crosshatching in the whole square just to the last row of the Echo stitching.. Very Nice Quilt...

I would add a couple more rounds of echo quilting around each cup that would fill the area in the corners a little more.

I think it will be fine. Your block is 10" square and each block has stitching around the mug which looks like about 3-3.5" from each side of the block which has SID so you're within the 2- 4inch limit recommended for the batting. I think your quilt looks great!

i think its looks good

Is there a reason people like the tape better than the guide that comes with the walking foot? I'm using that instead. It's coming along.

This is adorable! I love the coffee cup and background fabric choices. If you are worried about the batting, maybe do an echo stitch around the mugs about 1/2" - 1" from the existing stitch and use a thread color that won't stand out.

I'm not experienced enough to advise you on the quilting, but I want to tell you that I love your quilt. I think you did a great job.

Love the quilt and I do agree that maybe some additional quilting would add to it.

Your quilt is lovely. I would do one more echo quilting around each mug. You put a lot of time & effort into making the quilt and it would be a shame to have the batting shift or bunch up. Better safe then sorry.

You were brave to do a king size quilt for your first project. I think it's a beautiful quilt!!!

That is so adorable! Great Job!

This is adorable! A little more echo quilting should do it.

absolutely adorable

first of all i LOVE IT . where did you find the cup i need to get it. i love all tea, coffee things i think it is amazing. i too recently made a quilt where i felt i had the same problem. and i didn't have the answer either. i had to ask here as well. so hopefully we both get some good information as to what to do. but i hope you can help me by letting me know where you got those beautiful mugs at. thank you, huntersgrammie, aka rachelle

ok i'll bite is echo stiching just copying the stich she put around the mug. that is a guess but it makes sense to me but what do i know. lol

Last night we (my daughter & I) finished up her quilt gift for a friend...for the second time. She finished it last Saturday and ran it thru the wash. The batting blew up. Now let me tell you, you do not want to take a quilt apart. It isn't fun. I think she had not quilted enough.

I love the quilt It is bright and cheery and COFFEE !!! . Mine says up to 4 inches so I had to quilt more. Believe me I didn't want to.

Yes...you did a SID (stitch in the ditch) and echoed the cups...that's enough. Love the quilt & the colors...I'm a scrappy quilter...and this works for me!

I finished it up yesterday. Not only it is quilted more, but it looks a lot better and it actually got rid of the dorkiness. I looks more quilty I guess.

I'd do more of the "echo" or straight stitches in lines that radiate from your first echo. It'll look kinda like a star burst. JMHO.

That is one adorable quilt...I think it needs a bit more quilting, it doesn't need to be a lot, msybr just 3/4 of an inch from the block seams...sort of a large echo that would also frame the blocks....

I am happy you got it finished...I have spent hours looking for the McCall pattern..Have had no luck..Do you have a pattern number?

LOVE your quilt..Need to show us the finished product.......

Love your coffee cup quilt. Great first quilt,good job. I would quilt more.

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