Take a look at Loretta's quilt she SID the blocks and it makes them 'pop'. It is a gorgeous quilt.
Rosa

I'd stitch in the ditch on the pieced squares, and then choose part of one of the piecing designs found in one of those blocks and quilt that design on the setting triangles...(I'd only choose one, and do the same thing in all the blue ones, for continuity)...I did that once, and liked the results...the blocks had a pieced basket so I quilted in the ditch of those, and then quilted the basket design in the plain ones.

Really pretty! I like the colors, and I like the idea of setting the blocks on point. Sandra's suggestion of mixed SID and something else for the plain parts sounds good to me.

I don't know how you would quilt it, I am not good at that. But I just wanted to say how beautiful I think your quilt is. Thats a big WOW.

Rita

Hi,

I'm one of those who had suggested SID for this beauty, I think it would highlight the blocks beautifully.

On some of my own work, esp. when I have SIDed, I sometimes echo quilt into the setting triangles. That would be concentric triangles in this one.

pirate girl,
could you explain concentric triangles for the mathmatically challenged?

Beautiful quilt! I agree with Sandra..SID would be great to pop out the squares. Choosing a pattern for the blue would also be my suggestion. I tend to say away from free motion quilting as I personally think it gets over used and in some instances takes away from the quilt...just my thoughts.

HM

I think what pirate_girl means by concentric triangles is like concentric circles, but in triangles. You know how when you drop a pebble in the pond, you get concentric circles?
One of my favorite quilting patterns is like that; I use a stencil that I use where there are V's that oppose each other in quarters from the center. Gosh, how can I make this make sense? The lines radiate out from the center in an X, and then make V's that are smaller and smaller toward the sides and top, and never again cross one another.
Better yet, here, I found a picture, they call it Baltimore Grid. You could use part of that technique in your setting triangles; you could probably mark it with a ruler or painter's tape.
Boy, that was hard to explain!

Here is a link that might be useful: Baltimore Grid

Love sampler quilts snd yours is lovily. I like the idea of SID on the blocks and around bothsides of the red sashing. I think I would like a crosshatch in the blue areas. It's not hard to do and frames the inner blocks.
Jayne

My first thought for your setting triangles was to echo the triangles, kind of like nesting arrows. (It is the concentric triangles idea, using different words.) However, I really like Sandra's idea of using one of the blocks as a quilting motif in the setting triangles.

As for stitch in the ditch, you don't have to stitch directly in the seam. You can offset your quilting lines by an eighth or a quarter of an inch -- whatever is easiest to "eyeball," and that way you wouldn't have to do much marking at all.

Will you quilt by hand, or machine?

maryliz,
I am not much of a hand quilter due to tendonitis but I love my machine.

My machine would also make it easy to SID or outline quilt it. I do like the idea of doing a block motif in the triangles but I am confused about how it would work...How would you get it to fit in that space?

Thank you to everyone for all the fantastic ideas!

Hi Mrs. E,

Sorry, I did mean to explain further, but am at work & I had to deal w/ someone needing my attention.

Echo quilting just means continuing to quilt repeating lines around an existing shape (echoing that existing shape). Hum, that's not so clear.

OK, the setting triangles ... come over a 1/4 or 1/2" away from the edge of the setting triangle (its ditch) & just keep repeating stitching lines that distance away from the prior lines you've just stitched. In this case, 1/4" in from the "ditch" of the setting triangles, then move over another 1/4" from that newly stitched line, etc., keep doing that 'til you get to the inside of the setting triangle.

I don't mark my quilts as I haven't washed any yet (don't make baby quilts, more wall hangings & art quilts). I use a 1/4" quilter's tape to mark off grid lines when needed. In this case, on my old Singer, from the center needle position to the outside edge of the presser foot is exactly a 1/4". So I use that as my seam allowance & the first line of echo quilting. I happen to like the look of 1/4" channels that result from this.

I generally find that repeating the lines either a 1/4" or a 1/2" around the inside of the shape works well. I often stitch it in the same color as the patch (in yr. case, the navy blue), so one doesn't really see the stitching itself, just the quilty looking effect that has.

Is that any more clear? If not, Mrs. E, pls. try a search for Echo Quilting & w/in that isolate the search to images. That should result in images you can see.

Hope this helps & again, I think this quilt you've made really rocks!!!

As for the partial block used as a quilting motif in the setting triangles...
1) Select one of the quilting motifs that resulted when you echoed the pieced design in one of the blocks.
2) Now chop it in half, as it has to fit inside the setting triangle. It will be the same size as the original, but there will only be room for half of the motif.
3) Mark the motif on the fabric of the setting triangle with chalk or else use the tissue paper that tears away.
Does my description make sense?