Need advice on how to quilt this sno ball quilt
 

Hi, I need some advice on how I should quilt this sno ball quilt that I made for my 23 yr old grand daughter. I was thinking of outlining the inner part of the block or "trying" to do some free motion quilting in the center of the blocks. Should I also quilt on the sashing or cornerstones? How has anyone else done theirs? Thanks for any advice! Nancy

I would quilt it with a curvy pattern

Personally. I would quilt the sashing and leave the blocks plain unless the batting needed more, in which case I would do something simple in the blocks and something like a vine and leaf on the sashing.

I do a meandering or large stipple. I love the look and love doing it

Someone with more ideas will be along later.
Beautiful quilt.

I am not sure on the quilting but great work!!!!!

when i quilted mine, i quilted the sashing and [in yours] the 4blackcorners and cornerstones as one design. this let the snowballs show up more.

its beautiful !!!

I have no idea how to quilt it. That is one of my quandries whenever I finish a quilt. It is sure a beautiful quilt tho.

You could do SID on the sashing and a continuous line pattern in each center. It's very pretty.

I like something in each block and then some sort of vine in the sashing. It's a great quilt. Nice fabrics.

Just had to say "I love your quilt." Beautiful.

Very beautiful quilt.

Because the blocks are so busy, I would quilt just a little in them. The quilting would be lost in the print. Sashing, I agree with above, that a nice vine and leaf would look terrific.

Baptist Fans, love your quilt by the way.

Not good at quilting but love the quilt.

Hi, Thanks so much for all the great ideas for quilting. I have copied and pasted them all into a document so that I can read and study them and make a decision. Also thanks for the nice compliments! I actually had to go buy more material for some of the sashing. I did all of it vertically but realized I didn't have enough to go horizontally. I was fortunate to find some more plainer green that went very well with it. Everyone in my quilt group said that it looked like I had planned it that way! I was only 6" short and if I had not made my daughter a casserole carrier with some of it I would have had enough. I guess it was meant to be! Nancy

No advice on the quilting part, but that is one beautiful quilt. I just love the colors.

Not usually a fan of snowball quilts, but I LIKE this one. So pretty and feminine. Just lovely.

My first thought is a simple curvy design in the snowballs, then treat the dark HST corners and the cornerstone square as a block and do simple curvy outline (like LA quilters substitute for SID).

Great quilt!

Please post photos when you have the quilting finished? I'd love to see what you decided to do!

Beautiful quilt!! Almost any kind of pattern will work! Great job!

Christine, I will post a picture of the finished quilt. As it turned out I echo quilted around the inside of the snowball and in the black corners I did sort of an arc around each side, on the inside of the square. It doesn't show up very well in the picture. I free motioned everything so some of my lines are not very straight or stitches consistent but it's done! I was actually going to do some type of quilting in the sashing but my quilting group said not to.[ATTACH=CONFIG]406870[/ATTACH]

Your use of fabrics is terrific! And I love the colors you used. Great job!

Thanks, all the flowers were pieces of fabric that I had in my stash, I only bought the green.