Question for the Quilters

[same_sky]

Remember the baby quilt I mentioned yesterday? I have a quilting question. How much quilting does it actually need to have?

I used this pattern: Stacked Coins Baby Quilt. I have basically quilted along the vertical lines, and around the block itself (inside the border, that is.) It would have looked better to do some fancy quilting but I did not have the time, energy or skillz to pull it of. Is there a reason that I should do some quilting across the top as well? Cause.. I don't want to. I hate quilting. I really like the piecing of the top and all, but the actual quilting sucks and I am no good at it.

So... must I?

Comments

[3beards.livejournal.com]

Hi-I'm jumping in here from Beverly's journal. You don't have to quilt at all. The quilting is done to keep the batting from shifting/bunching during washing and drying. You can tie the quilt off which basically taking length's of yarn or crochet cotton, threading a needle with them and punching down and come back up (like you were sewing a button on), then tie the two ends a couple of times. I just made a quilt for a cousin and tied it off in five locations (four corners and in the center).

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! That is just what I was hoping to hear. I really don't like that part.