Mar 09 11
A Different Kind of Feathered Star
I spent most of last weekend creating a different type of feathered star quilt. This one is made of 4 large blocks and here’s the center of one block as I worked on it last weekend: (Sorry about the lighting issues)
This quilt’s “flavor” is kind of understated, so I don’t think it would be effective to do much decorative thread work in these block centers. My thread choices were pretty subtle compared to what I normally do! I did add a layer of trapunto only because I thought the quilt was kind of boring without it. Here’s a shot of the backside of one block:
And here’s what a full block looks like…now you can start to see why I called it a different type of feathered star quilt:
I really like how the curves of the feathers make the star look as if it’s dancing! This quilt is really simple. Once you piece the 4 large blocks together, you get:
I liked this pretty well, but it looks even better once a small pinwheel of feathers is added to the intersection of the 4 blocks:
…and here’s the finished top:
This was very fun to make and it went together lickity-split!
It is really beautiful! I just love your feathers, what a creative idea.
Absolutely GORGEOUS! I love your feathered star! Keep bringin’ it Patsy! 🙂
Thats gooood! inspired even!
Are your feathers another sizzix die? The curve is beautiful!
Awsome!!! Not much else to say!
What a beautiful pattern! I have a feeling that this may be a preview a new quilter’s Sizzix die! I hope so. My sister and I are looking forward to taking a class from you this month. Thank you for sharing and inspiring us into thinking outside of the quilting box 🙂
Patsy…..this is stunning!!!
What a wonderful design.
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You are amazing, prolific, talented and so on. Seriously how do you do girl, you do so much as well as teach, fess up you have a clone don’t you. Either that or you have serious sleep deprivation. Keep on creating. Cheers Pamela
gorgeous!
Absolutely gorgeous, and who doesn’t love blue and white!
Absolutely stunning!! These are the perfect applique feathers to use in a Ricky Tims’ Rhapsody quilt. You should combine your talents into making one of these quilts. It would be a quilt “to-die-for” !!!!
Are these feathers from a stencil? a die cut? Have to know. thanks they are beautiful
Beautiful quilt top. Love your designs, and where did you get that light in the above photo?
what a neat idea…I love it. will have to try since I don’t do free motion feathers very well (LOL)
Patsy, this is wonderful. I thought they looked like dancing snowflakes, especially in the blue.
-Alice
Wow! I like how you show us how to develop the whole quilt on layer at a time. The feathers tying the whole thing together is the best.
Wow. It is really beautiful. A simple idea but ….. incredible. Your right, the trapunto adds a little something special.
Really beautiful.
Lovely, lovely, lovely!