URGENT: need hasty advice for quilting a popsicle-themed table runner
 

I finished this mini-popsicle table runner from Fig Tree & Co and it will become a wall hanging for my twin grandbabies' room.
https://i.imgur.com/8WkEVhE.jpeg

I need to quilt and bind it by tomorrow!!!

I will be using a walking foot, not free motion quilting. The pattern suggests outlining the popsicles, then stitching the background in 1" crosshatches on point.

You can see here that in addition to outlining the popsicles they did another row of inside stitching. Not sure I like that so much.
https://i.imgur.com/y9raVER.jpeg
I can't find any finished examples of this pattern, so I could use some advice.

Gemini seconded the recommendation for outlining the popsicles and cross-hatching the rest. It also suggested alternatively just doing 1/2" or 1" vertical matchstick vertical lines across the entire quilt, no outlining of the popsicles....

Thoughts?

That is so cute! I'd crosshatch it all over. Don't overthink it. Do what is doable in your time frame. The wall hanging will be on the wall, so the quilting won't be that noticeable anyway.

If it's a wall hanging, just quilt in the ditch between each popsicle block and around the border.

All straight line stitching.

Then if you had more time, you could outllne around each popsicle.

I do a lot of cross hatching and in my opinion it will look good with 1" cross hatching.

I vote cross-hatching the border and then outlining the popsicles twice as suggested in pattern.