GloriaC

Really beautiful quilt. Love the colors.

promenades

Nice quilt! What color thread are you going to use and what do you want to show up. Do you want your quilting to be the main focus point or is it just the quilt? I would do spirals in your squares block, do a flower motif (for me it would be sunflowers) in your open block, then I would quilt leaf vines all around your boarder. I would hold up different color threads to the quilt to see which thread gives you the desired effect you want. Looks like it will be a fun quilt to quilt.

helenquilt

I really think diagonal across going from corner to corner on small blocks continueing across the solid blocks. Going this way you material has some give and doesn't bunch up in front of you needle so bad.
Good luck on a beautiful quilt

brendadawg

I love your choice of fabrics!

Christine-

Your quilt is lovely! The swirls on the beige blocks speak to me and they're saying simple "straight lines please". Anything else would detract from the beautiful red swirls of color. Maybe a diagonal cross hatch of sorts on those blocks? or you could stitch lines to immitate the 9 patch blocks in your quilt?

Whatever you decide, you can use clear plastic/dry erase marker to try out a pattern. Lay it on your quilt block to see if you like it. I save the stiff clear plastic from toy boxes for this use.

jamsbuying

Love your fabrics and you did a great job. All the suggetions here are great!

leighway

What a wonderful choice of fabrics! I happened to see a show on The Quilt Show featuring Edyta Sitar and she gave what I think is a great tip. She uses Aurofil number 2370 and 2310 50 wt. for quilting all her tops. She says it blends with her choices of pattern and color. Your wall hanging has a similar color emphasis and this thread color may answer your question about what thread to quilt with.

DebbE

Lovely quilt! I'd do a SITD and use a dark beige/dark gold thread as it appears the print on the yellow and parts of the main print have those colors. I'd carry that stitching down through the yellow/gold area as though it were a nine patch, too, to keep it simple. I'd carry that stitching through the borders too. It's a beautiful quilt. Practice some various stitches on a baby quilt or maybe use a little free motion practice on various blocks of a baby quilt. Different textures are fascinating for babies anyway.

Friday1961

...or, since these are fall colors, perhaps you could do an leaf outline in the lighter squares. You could draw a template from a real oak leaf, or maybe your machine does something like that.

Beautiful quilt, by the way!

Neesie

Your wall hanging is beautiful and you did a terrific job! I also like the idea of SITD, carrying the lines through the yellowish blocks. Trying to imagine thread color . . . I keep seeing a dark gold.

Please share a picture of it, when it's finished. It's gonna be gorgeous!