Ideas for quilting
 

I have just finished piecing my first QOV quilt. I need ideas for the quilting. I don’t do free motion and don’t want to send it out to be long armed. Any suggestions for straight line quilting that I can easily do on my domestic machine with a walking foot.

You could do some large stars and echo them.

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Tartan, would you do serpentine over the seamline or down the middle of the strips?

In addition to the wonderful suggestions above, I always think you can't go wrong with a 2" grid crosshatch done on point. You can mark it off with 2" Painters tape and quilt right next to the tape. When you get to the corner simply turn around the quilt and stitch back up the other side of the tape. Peel off the tape and place it going to the opposite corners. Quilt on both sides. You now have a big X quilted which will stabilize the whole sandwich nicely. Continue placing tape and quilting alternating directions as you work your way out. You should be able to peel and restick the tape several times (4ish) before you have to peel off a new piece of tape. It is quick and easy.

That is a great idea! I would never have thought of using the tape in this way!

The painter’s tape idea is awesome! I tried marking my lines a couple different ways and made myself miserable, the tape definitely has possibilities. ;);)

I think I would quilt it going across the vertical lines, perhaps going straight across every inch or so. A variable wavy line might also work nicely. I do that with my walking foot also.

Here is a picture of a quilt I did in the method I described above. You can kinda sorta see the quilting but that is pretty much the intent of an all over crosshatch like this. It is functional, utility quilting rather than decorative. It doesn't detract from the piecing even though it is an all over design.

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Thanks for this !

Feline Fanatic! What an awesome idea. Thank you so much. I'm going to use your idea on my next quilt!

The easiest would be a diagonal from the upper right corner down to the lower left corner. Starting in center row and working out allows for the least amount of fabric in the harp. Whether you roll it or just bunch it up is a matter of preference (you will hear the good and bad reasons for both!). Mark the center line and then just use it as the spacing line (or mark the whole quilt if you are more comfortable with that).

you can do slow curves with your walking foot by just moving the quilt a bit as you go along.

Love the painters tape idea-very creative and doable. Love your patriotic quilt too.

Be careful and don't sew over the tape. When you do, it's almost impossible to remove.

I made a similar quilt a while back and quilted it with a walking foot. It was my first time quilting. Mine had more red, so I quilted it in red, hoping that my mistakes wouldn't show. If I were doing yours, I'd use off white.

The beauty of this is that you don't have to mark it. You just do gentle "S" curves from one corner of the square to the middle and back again.

It's easier to do than to draw. I was happy with it and it looked pretty good.

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bkay

It's not very creative but stitch in the ditch is always an option! You could simply do the vertical seams or follow the "steps". I watched a friend quilt a simple quilt using a walking foot on her machine, stitching 1/4" on one side of the seams. I liked it. Depending on how wide your strips are, stitching with white and only in the white strips 1/4" from the seam, following the "steps"might be another suggestion. Does this give you a standard of the 4" between quilting? It appears your finished strips might be 2" so it might work.

I logged on to suggest the painters tape idea but see you've already received that one plus more! Thanks for sewing a QOV!

Whenever I quilt straight lines with my walking foot going from point A to point B across a block I use heavy paper (computer paper). I cut a strip about two inches wide and place the paper from point A to point B and sew. When I feel the paper edge isn't straight I just cut a new strip. I use this method for echo quilting as well. Cut the width strip I want the echo to be and go.

Thanks for the tip. Great idea.

bkay