luckydiver17

I am a beginning quilter, this is only my 4th quilt and I am making it for my sister for her birthday. I was hoping to get some ideas on what design to quilt. I can only straight line quilt, and unfortunately my small machine makes it very very difficult to turn my quilt (it gets stuck). I was thinking about quilting in orange thread to stand out, but since my quilting skills aren't fantastic its probably safer to use white thread. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks!

EC

How ambitious, great job. Don't think I was as brave on my 4th quilt. Sometimes a slightly curved quilting line off-sets a very geometric pattern.

tesspug

You might try cross hatching. I do mine by laying a length of blue painters tape along one of middle diagonal lines and then stitching next to the tape. The tape is your guide to a straight line. Then just move the tape across the quilt and go down the other side. Keep moving the tape. When it stops sticking use a new piece of tape. You never have to turn the quilt except at the ends of each row. Make sure you alternate which direction you hit each time to prevent puckers.

Tartan

Wonderful quilt top! Check to see the stitching requirement on your batt. If it can be quilted about 8-10 inches apart, you can straight stitch down the seam lines to form a large grid. After you get that done and it looks okay, you can decide if you want to add more quilting inside the squares. If you use a fairly busy fabric on the back, it will hide any quilting mistakes.

Grandma Bonnie

No help here, but wanted to say it sure is a beautiful quilt!! Good luck with the quilting!

QuiltnNan

your quilt is very pretty

dunster

Lovely quilt! Your color choices are beautiful, nice design, and your quilt is flat and straight. (I couldn't say the same on my 4th quilt, LOL) Your sister will be thrilled. If you're worried about the quilting showing too much, grey thread might be better than white. It will blend in more throughout the quilt.

Jeanne S

Beautiful quilt! Since it is a more modern design, straight line vertical quilting about an inch apart would look great. Lately I have also seen several quilts with just vertical line quilting, but the lines were just slightly curvy in a random basis--but never crossing over each other-sometimes half inch apart and up to about two inches apart. This gives a Slightly softer look to a geometric pieced pattern..

luckydiver17

I like the idea of cross hatching. Would you start from corner to corner or would you keep your lines going with diagonal blocks so it goes more with the pattern?

luckydiver17

And thanks for the compliments everyone! I am teaching myself as I go so I learn something new with every quilt