Looking for suggestions to quilt this
 

Have recently finished this quilt top/ wall hanging, and have no idea how to quilt this. Any suggestions? The redwork is hand done.

Just wanted to say, really pretty quilt. There are a lot of really good quilters here who can give really good ideas about how to quilt it. I'll be watching and learning.

I made a red work quilt and I quilted in the ditch and also used my embroidery machine to quilt on the sashing. It came out beautiful. I also hand quilted another piece and it didn't come out as well. Good luck

I would do echo quilting around the nutcrackers, and something (not sure what!) in the sashings, borders, and white squares. And I would SID around the edges of the nutcracker blocks. I'm partial to swirls myself for the sashings and borders, but that may not be the your thing. I love your quilt. The redwork nutcrackers are new to me! Very very nice.

I did one similar with Santas. I outlined the Santas with a pale grey thread on my sewing machine. Then, I hand-stitched a large, running stitch around each of the Santa blocks about 1/4 inch from the edge.

I would cross hatch the background like they use to quilt redwork quilts in the 30s.

I agree with ManicQuilter2... that's the first thing that came to mind. Cross hatch in the white squares. Then, if you want something curvy in the red. BTW=beautiful work!

I 3rd Maniac quilter's suggestion. Cross hatch in white thread and go right over the embroidery but do it on point (so the cross hatch forms a diamond grid) and a 1" grid. I saw a picture of one done this way recently (red work hand embroidery) and it was fabulous and actually took a ribbon at the show. The quilting over the embroidery did not take away from the hand embroidery at all and it gave the redwork a classic, timeless look. For your red sashing I would do feathers or a simple egg and dart design. I would do pumpkin seed flowers in the white cornerstones.

I like the redwork, but I would NOT quilt across it. I judged a quilt show once for a small community and they had all quilted across the redwork and it ruined it for me. I would quilt around it in echo quilting.

This quilt gave me good opportunity to play with my drawing program. Do you like this idea?,but not stitching thru the embroideries, or course.

don't know if this attached, if not will try again