Jul 19 15
Playing Around with Featherettes
This design was made by repeating 3 different featherette designs around a circular spine filled with the feather wave border design:
This is a shot of the basic framework stitched:
In this next shot, you kind of get a sense of what hyperquilting adds to the outermost featherettes. This shot has some of them hyperquilted and some of them still “naked:”
Now all of the outer featherettes have been hyperquilted but the center-most section is still lacking any design:
I took the easy way out and just stitched basic plumes. Here it is 3/4 of the way stitched:
and now all the way stitched:
Here’s to better mental health through free motion quilting!
Wow, just beautiful. I know what my next practice session is going to include. Thanks again, Patsy.
Wow! Just beautiful!
That’s right! Better mental health through free motion quilting! Kept me sane through some rough times a few years ago.
Love the new design! I’m taking your Craftsy class right now and it is just superior! You are such a wonderful teacher!
Gorgeous, Patsy — I wanted to ask: What thread are you using for the quilting? It glows on the background.
Diane