Quote Originally Posted by ajs88 View Post
This is quite a fun and retro style I've found on Molly Flanders blog, she mixes machine quilting 1/4" from each seam and the uses pearl cotton or other thick thread to do chunky hand quilting, often in a contrasting colour, to give more interest to the quilt.

http://mollyflanders.blogspot.com/20...spart-one.html
But if you want to do machine only I just love it when you quilt across the block, like a diagonal grid across a square quilt so you get diamonds

I looked at Molly Flanders blog....it makes me want to learn hand quilting! I know how, done it MANY years ago, but never perfected it..now I want to try hers look so good with it! And the different colored threads for the quilting gives the quilt more depth and design and "stand-outish". I have a small practice quilt I was going to do stippling on, but I think (due to size) I will give hand quilting a try!