Kara

Exactly.
Consistency is more important. And the smaller stitches will come with practice.

One thing to be careful of while you're working on a quilt (because a quilt could offer enough practice to get smaller stitches because you're hands will get stronger), is to keep the stitches consistent as you go along and try not to get them smaller.

Regardless of stitches per inch, your stitching is beautiful!!

Butterflyspain

looks super to me too

Elle

sewjoyce

Looks awesome to me!!! (Wish mine looked that good!)

mpspeedy

You are doing a beautiful job. Your granny would be proud. Be sure and post when it is finished.

Shemjo

Your stitching looks beautiful! Consistency is the key, and you get that by practice. If you are interested in smaller stitches, loosen the tension a tad so you can rock the fabric more. Fine, short needles can help also. But your sticthes look plenty small to me.
Glad there are more people who want to do hand quilting. Some quilts lend themselves to machine quilting, but IMHO the finest ones will still be hand quilted! :lol:

motomom

Thanks to all for the advice. Any comments you can make on what size needles you are using for the best results would be appreciated.

Also, how do you all handle going over seam allowances? I'm having a lot of trouble with that.

ChristineD

I think it looks great. I have tried free motion quilting on my machine and cannot do it at all. So I am forced to hand quilt. I have a really hard time with hand quilting also. Wish my looked as good as yours.
I live very near Shipshewanna IN. I was looking at the Amish quilt for sale there and was surprised how big and open their stitches were! I have always heard about 12 stitches to the inch and can come nowhere near that.

Keep up the good work!
Christine

littlehud

I think it looks great. If I could hand quilt like that I might do it more often. Give yourself a pat on the back. Great job.

dvseals

When I get to seam allowances it's stab and pull til I'm past it.
Just can't seem to "sew" through them :(

QuiltMania

You're doing just fine. It's more important to be consistent at first. Size comes with experience and practice. Even so, 5-7 stitches per inch is just fine.