This is my finished top ready for quilting---This is a wedding gift for the fellow and I need help in deciding on outine quilting or a meandering design???Give me your vote--

outline for that BEAUTY!

That is fabulous! But I think meandering!

I think outlining.

I'm no help regarding the quilting, but I absolutely love your quilt!!! :oops: :thumbup:

It's beautiful and both would look lovely.

I think a geometric outline with sharp corners would make it look uber modern, while a meander would make it look very traditional and cosy. I would fit the recipient into either category based on their tastes and quilt accordingly.

I think it would look great either way!

I think outline. because of it's geometric straight lines. The meandering I think would make the quilt look out of place because of its flowing lines. Just my opinion. It is very lovely!!!! nice colors too.

I do almost all of mine with a large meander,stipple,FMQ, whatever you want to call it, I think it is the perfect quilting design for 99-1/2% of my quilts.
It is beautiful and you did a great job on it.
Good luck quilting it.

I think meandering ... that's what I do with most of my quilts and they turn out great!

I think meandering..because you don't want to take away from the design..but you want to see quilting

I love your quilt. Have you considered straight lines throughout? Perhaps the size of the small white and red small fourpatches. Is that an inch?

I think I would do a straight diagonal through the little squares. And a pretty motif or meandering in the larger diamond shapes.

Love your quilt top! Very pretty!

I think that I would use a combination of meandering and outline. I would need graph paper to sketch the quilting pattern before I could make up my mind what went where. No matter what you choose, I know it will be beautiful!

Outlining and shadowing.

not a choice i would like to make---but i would be extreemly happy if any of my quilts looked as good as this one

Beautiful Quilt!

I hand quilted a somewhat similar one going diagonally through the blocks making 'X's.

I would stitch in the ditch if I could sew a quilt like that! It is stunning. Superb use of colors.

Gorgeous quilt by the way!!

Circles. The quilt is beautiful.

Beautiful and I'm not help on the quilting.

Definitely meandering.

What if you just did straight diagonal stitching over the whole quilt....in one direction only....and that being perpendicular to the diagonal lines formed by the small 4-patches? If you did that, I think only between the 4-patches where they meet, not through them. The diagonal lines formed by the 4-patches and larger squares is so strong visually that quilting lines in the opposite direction would balance out the movement somewhat.

It IS a lovely quilt and you did a fantastic job on it!!! Karen

I'd vote for meandering, or other FMQ to give the design an extra touch and more texture~