Quilting Nonnie

I made this string quilt and want to hand quilt in the plain "squares." It is a queen size, so I'm going to have the rest of it machine quilted. I need your opinions...should I hand quilt then send it out? or send it out first? Does anyone have experience with this?

I'm very excited to get started on it!

paintedquilt

When I was going to do both, I sent the quilt out and she laq quilted around the areas I was going to hand quilt and basted the same areas so they wouldn't bulge.

This is one of my favourite scrappy quilt patterns. I've made two so far :-P

Rachelcb80

I don't have any experience with hand quilting or sending a quilt out so take my opinion for what it's worth (which isn't much :D). I think I would send it out and have them do the quilting first, then do your hand quilting.

Edited to add: really love your quilt top! That's a beautiful scrappy piece!

quiltsRfun

[quote=paintedquilt]When I was going to do both, I sent the quilt out and she laq quilted around the areas I was going to hand quilt and basted the same areas so they wouldn't bulge.

Sounds like a good idea to me. That way you won't have to go to the trouble of basting. I'll bet the longarmer would prefer it that way too.

mytwopals

You need to send it out to the LAQ first.