I'm working on a small wall quilt. The quilt top is done and I'm thinking about how to quilt it, but my standard ways of quilting (in the ditch and outline) don't seem like they'd quite work with this. This is a modified version of a quilt from one of the Super Simple Quilts books, and in the picture I have of the quilt from the book (which actually is from a Joann's flyer, I haven't seen the book) it looks like it was quilted with a series of big (12"+) X's.

Anyhow, does anyone have any suggestions on easy ways to quilt this? I helped a friend make a similar one, her first quilt, and I'd like to be able to suggest an easy way for her to quilt it as well.

I agree it needs more than a stitch in the ditch. It would be pretty with flowers on the plain stripes and stipple in the rest.

Are hanging this with the stripes horizontal or veritical?

Here's a site that I refer to for ideas. Its a stencil company.

http://quiltingstencils.com/

It will hang as it is pictured.

Why not practice free motion writing. You could then put a favorite saying or quote in the plain strips! Then I would do a stipple in the rest....

Ditter

cute quilt...

Are you going to be machine or hand quilting? What's your taste? Do you like contemp, folk, floral? I guess I'm wondering what direction you would like to take it?

Machine quilting. I guess contemporary for taste...I'm not into funky though (if it even exists in quilting??). I guess I don't have much of a quilter mentality as I really only think about the fabric & pattern I like and not about the quilting other than as something that has to be done.
Really I want something fairly easy as patience and precision are not my strong points!

Then what about some sort of geometric pattern. When I went on quiltingstencils.com I saw some really neat patterns that were geometric. Even something like the clamshell will add a lot of interest, it'll put curves against your squares.

Is it hard to do something like that? It just looks really complicated and time consuming.