I love the Amish style quilts. What can I say.I like to machine piece, and hand stitch where it shows, so the quilt has a hand-sewn affect. I've pieced the top & basted the layers of one king-sized center diamond-nine patch quilt (in use), but that was in Autumn of '07. I rather got use to it unfinished, have been using it this way (basted) and I'm just not sure what to do. Kind of made a bad choice of batting (too puffy for hand quilting, thought I could hand sew through it, but I think I'd rather have done the batting in flannel. So I'm thinking I'll tie off this one, and start another , batted with flannel, so I can hand quilt a lot easier. What would you do? Thanks ahead of time !

I would do exaclty as you said!! Would love to see pics!

Rachel

Same here.

Would love to see it. I bet it is awesome.

I agree!!!!!!!! :D I would tie it. Please post a pic. I love Amish quilts!!

I think I would hand tie it too :D:D:D

Amish quilts are breathtaking! Do try to finish and show us your first one. Remember that the Amish always try to include mistakes, because no one is perfect. And then start another. If you have the talent to hand quilt, it will only add to the beauty. I can't wait to see your quilts!

Please post pics so we can see it.

I would love to see a picture.

I think it is the one in her Avatar. I have a preprint of this one that is quilted quite nicely if you would like to see it. THe Amish here usually do very simple designs.

Thanks everybody. I will tie it for sure. When it is all finished I'll photograph it, most definitely. I am anxious to do some table cloths and other housey items, for which I enjoy stitching a layer of quilting just for looks, but then on to bed quilt #2.

I am guilty of plageurism... the avatar image is something I just searched on the internet "amish quilt picture". I guess I will change the avatar image, because that's not really cool.

By the way, this place is amazing, I am *so* happy I signed up.

About the plageurized avatar :oops:, tomorrow I will remedy this by taking a close-up photo of some random square on a project of mine, and that should suffice. 8-)

I would love to see a picture too!

I handquilt everything (except potholders.) Tying quilts holds up for awhile. If you want to just get it out of the UFO pile - go ahead and tie it. But it would be a shame in my mind. Those hours of hand stitching are good for the soul and you'll remember to choose your batting more carefully next time! I sold a table runner today - beautiful thing - but the batting was so thick!.. I wanted to make it a hotpad/runner thing. It is but I kicked myself around the block for the work that it took to quilt it.