Hello all, I'm finished with my very first quilt top. I've attached a picture. It was a lot harder than I thought. My sashing has a few puckers as well as some of my blocks. Not sure what really happened but I followed a printed pattern and the finished quilt size is supposed to be 61x72. When I measure my quilt from corner to corner it's 92.5". At least it's square! I know I probably shouldn't have made my first quilt so large, but wanted to make something that I would be able to use. I'm thinking of doing straight stitch quilting around the blocks. I've never quilted before, but will be doing it on my sewing machine. I have my walking foot and will probably pin instead of spray basting, in case I mess up and have to redo, I won't have a sticky mess. Any suggestions on what other type of quilting I should do besides the straight stitching around the blocks? Thank you all for your help and or suggestions![ATTACH=CONFIG]566485[/ATTACH]

very good 1st. quilt

Nice job. Your blocks are lined up nicely. I love the colors you chose

I really like the colors - the quilt looks comfy.

I don't know what type of quilting you should do. First I would wonder what batting are you using? the batting will dictate how close you will have to quilt.

My last quilt that I finished I did straight line quilting..... cross hatch on a 45 degree angle. Each line was about 2-1/2" from eachother. I was happy how it turned out and it wasn't too difficult to do

Congratulations. Kool first quilt. Welcome from Northern California. Looking forward to seeing more from you. You did GOOD girl. BrendaK

Great job on the quilt - love the colors. Keep going, you may get addicted to quilting!

Thank you Fred Singer

Thank you cjsews

Thank you Meyert. I'm not familiar with a cross hatch on a 45 degree angle? Can you explain how to do it? I have never quilted before. Thanks!

Thank you BrendaK. You made my day! I know my borders and corners are a little off, but I showed my husband and asked if he noticed anything before I continued. He didn't find anything until I had to point out to him that I was off a hair on lining up my border and my corner square. He said if you have to look that hard, to not worry about it. I decided to leave it. Now on to trying to learn to machine quilt it!