Originally Posted by
joe'smom
Betweens are normally recommended for quilting. Art gallery fabrics were a great choice for your first quilt, they are beautifully thin. I suppose the chintz is rather thick? Had you considered doing this one with big-stitch quilting? I don't know much about it, but I'm sure you could google and find tutorials.
Although I am not typically a hand quilter, I do enjoy it and have done several quilts by hand. I always used a sharp needle that is fine, "betweens" work well. I second the suggestion above about big stitch quilting. I have seen some that are really lovely and that show off the fabric and blocks very well. Chintz is a very tightly woven fabric much like batiks. I leaned the hard way that batiks are more difficult to hand quilt.