How do I quilt a Hunter Star
 

Hey Quilters! I need your expertise in deciding how to quilt my Hunter Star and what color thread to use.
I have spent a year working on and off on this quilt for my wonderful grandson, and I am well pleased with
the piecing but need help deciding how to quilt it. I am pretty good at stitch in the ditch, but can venture out a little. I have a Husqvarna Mega Quilter and have free motioned some. Please let me know what
you think. Thank you

If it were mine, I would use black thread and stitch in the ditch around all the black pieces. I'd be afraid anything more would detract from the beautiful piecing.

I am also a ditcher but in the larger triangle, I would also echo quilt once inside the triangle just to secure the batting approximately 1/2 inch. I prefer having the piecing be the star of the quilt and not compete with the quilting.

i'm with you, Maniac :)

nice work. I would maybe use two different threads and then ecco quilt all the quilt.

That is such a gorgeous quilt!!! For someone who has been fooling with quilts since '95 you would think I wouldn't need to ask this question. I'm a ditcher and crosshatcher. Would you echo each triangular piece using free motion or by manipulating the quilt for each turn of each angle?

I would also suggest echoing the larger triangles, not quilting the diamond pieces. Nice job on the piecing!

I would use a gray thread.

I've seen a lot of two color Hunter Star quilts quilted with an all over design and they looked great. The most impressive was a small diamond crosshatching. I think I would use the bright blue color for thread.

I think if it were mine, I would use the dark color in the light areas, and the light in the dark areas and echo quilt the stars. Hope what I am saying makes sense. Just two echos in each color would be more than enough quilting and would be pretty neat.

Love your quilt but can't help with the quilting.

I tried to load a picture of one I did but couldn't, probably too big. Anyway, I echoed inside the stars and made my own template to go across the triangles. It was sort of two fleur-de-lis' with a kind of ruffled diamond shape in the center connecting the fleur-de-lis'. Might be more trouble than it's worth since the grandson will be using it......if you know what I mean ;-).

Thank you all for a lot of good ideas. The top came out good, and I just don't want to ruin it with my quilting. Please
keep the ideas coming. Thanks

Quilting Hunter's Star
 

I had a flash! You could quilt a Carolina Panther that would show up on the back and then "fill" with an echo or SID- what colors are you using for the back?

Your quilt is gorgeous! I love the colors

Your quilt is absolutely great! You have received a lot of good suggestions already and I am sure how you decide to quilt it will add to the beauty of this quilt!

I just googled HS images and thought this one was nicely done, and the quilting design doesn't look too difficult

http://lrdesignsquilting.com/blog/archives/6195

I love your quilt! You might want to just use your walking foot to do diagonal lines from both directions. Cross hatching but larger. This would keep the "guy" feel I think.