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I'm ready to start hand quilting the 'Prairie Queen',a pattern from 1939. I can't decide.........HELP. Should I do a straight grid? A diagonal grid? Maybe stitch in the ditch with an echo? I just can't decide.

Here is a picture of some of the blocks...

That will make a pretty quilt. When I look at the blocks there, I could see quilting an 'X' through the centers. Then, I wonder how an square, on point, would look as well.

Good luck!

Or, maybe you could come up with some sort of round design to put in each block. You may have to do a little stitch in the ditch in some of the corners, so you have enough quilting in it.

I see lots of possibilities!

you might need to toss a dart at the wall of choices. Your ideas would be good, and do the job, but my style preferance would be more of a motif design in each block with the design having "point fillers" so the corners would be held down. I wonder if stencils made to quilt inside double wedding ring centers would fit those blocks and get into the corners to keep them from popping up.

Very nice blocks and colors.

No suggestions about the quilting from me but I want to say that the blocks are really pretty. I don't remember ever seeing that pattern before. Mom made some blocks she called prairie queen but they were different.

That is going to be a pretty quilt. As much as I like to use a quilting template and sometimes just ignore the block design, if this were my quilt I would quilt 1/4" either side of each seam.

I would outline quilt that too just as Sherry said...beautiful quilt.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
I may have to dig out the darts....

The quilt has 30 12 inch blocks and the sashing is black with tiny flowers.