You've made a beautiful quilt...and one that your family will definitely treasure!

Beautiful quilt.

I totally agree. What an amazing quilt. Good luck with the quilting !!

Beautiful quilt for first project.

beautiful, love it, if you are going to hand quilt it, outline the center and then do a allover design for the rest. If someone else is going to quilt it use someone who can do a computer special design for you.

Beautiful quilt, I might quilt around the applique and then a general meander over the rest.

That is a beautiful quilt!

I saw it on some fabric/quilting website and I wanted to try it, but I was told it had to be done in the Marcus materials in the kit because it had special prints or something - I couldn't use my own fabrics.

Did you have to fussy-cut the fabric? Are there special prints? Do you think it would work if I chose my own colors and prints?

You did beautiful work!

Your quilt is stunning and to think it is your first major quilt!. I will offer an opinion. Keep it very simple especially in the main body of the quilt. Stitch in the ditch would be nice if you feel confident; but, you could also do a quarter of an inch from the seam lines. Then you could take advantage of regular stitching on your machine or use a walking foot if you have one. If you practice on some scrap for a bit before hand I think you could do feathers on the border. This would allow you to do feathers and also not have to be concerned with a bunch of tight quilt stuffed in the harp space. We will look forward to see what you finally decide to do.

It's a real beauty!

Your quilt is so awesome, you did a fantastic job on it. I'm afraid I don't have any quilting ideas, other than possibly quilting around your applique pieces and maybe some cross-hatching on the middle block.