Is this enough quilting?
 

I have marked a picture of my quilt with the quilting design (in red). My concern is that there are long thin sections (green) that are far beyond the recommended quilting distance (8 inches). I feel that if I try to add something in to reduce the length of the long sections, that it won't look right, but obviously after all this work, I don't want to not have enough quilting and ruin the quilt!

So, a quick poll, would you add extra quilting in or leave it as it is?

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8 inches is the MAXIMUM you need to leave between quilting the manufacturer recommends. You can quilt as densely or as loosely as you like (up to the 8").

what size are your hexies? unless they are gigantic, it looks like your red has sufficient quilting

They're 1 1/2" hexies. I look at it and think that the quilting is enough, it's just those long thin bits on the grey fabric that concern me!

It looks to me like the greatest area without quilting would be inside the blue cross shaped pieces, which I would not think are more than about 4 inches wide and/or long. I don't think you should have any problems down the road if you quilt it as you have indicated. Very pretty quilt by the way.

I have a grandmother's flower garden just like this and the quilting was done exactly where your red lines are. I think I made that quilt 10 years ago and the hand quilting group that quilted it did a wonderful job. I don't have any problems with the spaces. I think you're good with just the red lines.

Brilliant! Thanks guys! It's so nearly done and I really didn't want to add any extra bits in! Just have to get the middle of each flower done, and one strip of the bluey cross shapes to do (ran out of thread, very annoying!)
I truly can't wait to be able to snuggle under it properly! :-)

Be sure to show us a picture of the finished quilt!!

I think you are fine with your red lined quilting plan. The way I understand the spacing requirements is that you shouldn't have a spot that does not have quilting stitches within 8" of it. It looks to me like you meet that guideline easily. For example, take an 8" square ruler and move it around on your quilt and I bet you won't have any squares without stitching in them.

Ditto what everyone else stated. Your hexies take care of your quilting.

Yes, it would depend on the size of your hexes. I did this type of quilting with a couple of GFG that were 1" in size.

Gorgeous quilt!

Unless your blue hexies are each 4" wide, you're good. If they are wide, you could outline each of them through the center.
The rule about the 8" is the width between stitch lines, not the length of your stitch lines. Some people will even stitch only vertical quilting lines with nothing horizontal at all & it turns out beautifully. Your plan looks really nice. Hope you post a pic when it's all quilted. :)

Good idea to use a ruler to check on the spaces.

The longest part of the bluey bits is 6 1/2 inches, so I think I can get away with it!
Thank you all so much for your comments :-)

JeanneS's description is how I think of it too. My gran tied all of her quilts and the way she taught me is that if you drew an imaginary circle around each tie, that circle should touch another tie in each direction (top, bottom, left, right). Her batting had a 3" max, so when she was teaching me, she found a six-inch wide plate and that was my "tester" to make sure I was spacing things properly.

So translating that to machine quilting and your 8" quilting allowance batting...unless you can fit an 8" plate somewhere on your quilt with zero quilting touching it, you're totally good to go! :)

OH!!! Thank you for the question. I'm working on a GFG and was wondering, if I ever get there, how to quilt!!!! I have put a copy of yours in my bucket list to reference later!!

Your quilting looks adequate to me and seems appropriate to the quilt., which is very nice, by the way.

As long as you have stitching along each side of the areas outlined in green, you will be fine. The recommended quilting distance is satisfied by the green lines because they are so long and close together.

If you want your quilt soft and wrappable, I think you've got enough quilting. The more quilting the stiffer the quilt gets. I happen to like mine soft so what you've done would be great for me!