Lavada

It will be beautiful what ever you decide no quilting police here only lots of quilting buddies

anniesews

Love those colors.

ashlett

I quilt by hand and love it.

tildiemae

I have similar feelings when it comes to machine quilting but it's getting better with each one! I take a deep breath and start!!! I've also learned to concentrate on one small area rather than thinking about the entire quilt as a whole and this seems to help me. Good luck and don't be afraid, just do it!!

wildyard

If it were mine, I would make an X in each 9 patch. First make a big x across the whole square, then make the short legs of the 4 smaller Xs by sewing across the corner 3 squares of each 9P. That will go really fast too. I would then SITD around the outside of each large block.

Latrinka

I don't think SID would look bad. Go for it!

CathieB

Have you considered outlining the owls using your sewing machine regular stitch (or make your stitch length a tiny bit longer). It's almost like stitch in the ditch - without the ditch! As long as your tension is good you can slowly stitch around these little guys on the back and the front will show the quilted outline of the owls - very cute!

DJinSC

I only do SID and grid patterns. I really like the way the grids look. You can start in the upper left corner and go through each block diagonally til you get to the bottom right corner. Then go over maybe two blocks and repeat til you've done the whole quilt. Also this way you are starting and stopping on the edge where it won't seen (I'm not very good at starting and stopping within the quilt neatly). If you did every block, that would be too much. I'm scared to FMQ and don't have the patience to practice, practice, practice like everyone suggests. It is a very pretty quilt and your neighbor will love it. I think light pink would be perfect, or white.

riutzelj

what about cross hatching it? that is what i do with a lot of the baby quilts i do when i machine quilt versus hand quilt.

CAS49OR

I wonder if a Big Foot would work with your machine. I bought one similar to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Free-motion-Da.../dp/B004ZMD6HS