quilt thread color and pattern advice, please!
 

Please help me decide how to quilt a quilt top, which I just finished for my son's wedding. Also, can you give me advice on how to post the picture? I keep getting an error message. I'm trying to attach a picture taken from my computer "pictures" file.
I'm a fairly inexperienced quilter. The quilt has greens, golds and brown batiks, and I'm wondering what color thread I should use so as not to detract from the quilt top pattern? green? Or should I use the transparent thread (is it nylon?)? If transparent, what color bobbin? My backing is dark brown. Does the clear thread hold up and can it be washed?
Also, how would you quilt this, again, given that I am inexperienced. There are log cabin blocks and star blocks, with sashing in between (hard to describe without the picture!). I can't do fancy designs, but want this to look good. What would you suggest?

Here's the picture for thread and quilting advice
 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]411803[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]411804[/ATTACH]Thank you so much, AZ Jane, for your advice on the picture. Here it is.

:thumbup: I might be temped to quilt with a dark brown thread to let it show. But if you don't want it to show, the clear thread. BUT I have never used the transparent thread. Hang on, by the morning, you'll have dozens of answers.

I would use a brown thread or use brown in bobbin and green on top. I would not recommend the nylon because it is a lot harder to work with (when I used it, it kept breaking).

Your quilt is lovely. Not sure what color thread to use...sorry I am no help.

Lovely quilt. Like others have said, I'd use brown in the bobbin and to apply the sashing. Brown or green for the top.

It really depends on what you want to achieve with your quilting. Do you want the quilting to stand out or to fade in. I would "puddle" various colors of thread on each color in the quilt and see what looks pleasing to your eye. If your backing is brown I would tend to make the bobbin thread brown. As to the quilting design I'll leave that to those who do quilting designs better than I! :)

I would probably chose a light or medium green matched to the green in the centre of the first quilt, after checking how it blended with the other colours. Though I would change to brown on the sashing stripes.

That is a beautiful quilt. Looks to me like you are plenty experienced. Great job, good pattern, beautiful colors. Yum

I always forget about this great hint. Thanks for the reminder :)

Have you considered verigated thread? Think with your batiks, it would blend really nice.

Beings I don't know what you're comfortable with on the quilting front, it's hard to suggest something.
If it's easy/simple you're shooting for, maybe a "X" in each square?

I would use something in the gold family, would not be as obvious if the quilting is a bit wonky. Or a variegated. Btw, Lovely color combo - great job!!

I would go with a variegted King Tut

Your quilt is gorgeous. My vote is for varigated thread on the front.

I'm not going to be of help with thread color, but I just wanted to say that your quilt is beautiful. You did a fantastic job!

No help here but had to tell you your color choices are wonderful and your quilt is so very gorgeous! You did an excellent job on it! I'm impressed!!!!

I would use a dull gold colour. Locally there is a LAQ who does outstanding work and I find I'm drawn to the quilts with the gold thread, it looks so rich.

Beautiful job! I would use brown in the bobbin to match the back. On the top, I would use a varigated thread, with either the green or the gold. There might even be one that would have some of all 3 colors in it. The reason for varigated is in case some of the thread pulled through from bottom to top.

Or if you wanted to do stitch in the ditch, match the top thread to the block, and use brown for the bobbin.