newbee3

how big are your blocks and if you use warm and natural you can quilt 10" APART if so you can quilt std along the sashings

GiddyUpGo

Thanks! Can I just make sure I understand what you meant by that? Do you mean just horizontal/vertical lines down each third of the blocks, and then down the center of the sashing? Sorry! I'm still new enough at this that I need the dumbed-down version, haha. :-)

Retiredandquilting

I love it!

quilt queen

very nice first quilt...you did a great job!

rilene

You've done a fantastic job! I also recommend using a walking foot and quilting with straight line. A diagonal grid works great.

Sam Poodles

Off your topic but have you tried using the triangle papers???? They have been a lifesaver for me. Your quilt is delightful! Looks great.

Sewfine

Love your chicken quilt. I am still a newbie to FMQ, but I like the stretched zig zag.

bunniequilter

That looks pretty good! Nice warm colours.

MargeD

What a great quilt. My sister would have loved this quilt as she loved collecting chickens. Your quilt looks great. I'm not sure if I can explain this easily, but I would SID with your walking foot, start at the inside top of the top triangle, go straight down, then turn the quilt to quilt up the triangle, then turn again and go across, and reverse to go down t he side of that triangle,then up, etc. This means you have a continuous line of SID without having to start and stop, leaving many threads. If machine quilting when you start, hold the quilt in one place for a few stitches, or start with smaller stitches, then go to normal stitches, that way you won't have to bury threads, just pull the bobbin thread up at t he beginning, then cut off whenyou finish that area. Cross-hatching would also work, making "X's" across each block. Look forward to seeing your completed quilt.

EmiliasNana

Rather than trying to quilt by following your piecing lines, I agree a corner to corner grid would work perfectly. I have had good luck using 2" blue painters tape and then using my walking foot, quilting along both sides of the tape. I started with the longest area (like the top right corner and then down and left at a 45 degree angle). Once that was done I took off the tape and reusing it, positioned one edge along the previous sewing edge, and quilted that line and so on. Repeat in the opposite direction so you end up with a grid on point.[ATTACH=CONFIG]394509[/ATTACH]If you use two lengths of tape it will go faster. Use the first one butted up against your previous line of stitching, then place the second line of tape butted against the first tape. If you remove the first "spacer" tape before you sew, you can sew along both sides of the second tape before repositioning again. Hope that makes sense. I don't know if you can see the quilting on the baby quilt, but it was done using this method. Very quick and accurate. Good luck. What ever you do, your quilt is amazing. Great job!