Trisher

Ekuw - you did a fabulous job! Your quilting is wonderful!

lots2do

Adding something curvy might be nice like the spirals in the photo if you can do that.

Jennifer23

I would quilt either all the charcoal, or all the blue. The quilting on the back will then echo the block pattern. If each block is 12", you will definitely need more quilting.

I would use a couple different patterns for the outer squares (I get bored easily, and changing makes it more fun).

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If you need to quilt both colours, I would do a straight-line pattern in one colour, and a curvy/swirly pattern in the other.

Your quilt is lovely - good luck with the quilting!

Trisher

Cool Jennifer23! How did you do that? Your ideas are great, but I would love to be able to do what you did on the photo to try out different ideas too!

petthefabric

On the back border of EKUW's quilt is square in a square. The quilting there is done with a walking foot, not FMQ. It's pretty simple and can be done as straight lines clear across the quilt. I've used it lots of times.

Jingle

I would just do FMQ. That is how I quilt most of my quilts. I love it and love doing it.

QuiltE

Trisher ... I cant' do what Jennifer23 did, but what I do is take a picture of the quilt, and print it out on paper ... then start some doodles of what I think I might do. It's a good way to figure out the design and how to move from one area to the other with as few thread breaks as possible.

wesing

I was thinking along the same lines as Jennifer. A medallion inside all the small squares, then one motif (maybe ribbon candy?) in the large light squares and another motif (maybe diagonal lines) in the large dark squares. Or you could do linear in all the dark areas and curves/curls in all the light; I think that would look really good on the back too.

Jennifer23

I got the second-cheapest Wacom tablet available, and I use it with the basic photo editing program that came with my computer. It didn't work for the reason I bought it for, but it's very handy for trying out different quilting patterns!

I've done it the way QuiltE suggests as well (printing a photo and drawing on it), but I don't currently have a printer, so this is the easiest way.

jillmc

I use a free app on my ipad called You Doodle....you can enlarge portions of your photo on screen and try out different quilting designs. I am not computer savvy, and it is prettyuser friendly! Love your quilt!