Latest Quilt Finish

The one good thing about all the angst I am feeling about what’s happening in this country is that I am spending a ton of time sewing and quilting to soothe my soul.  This has resulted in me cranking our several new donation quilts fairly quickly and I am enjoying every second of it.  The quilt above is another donation quilt for hospice and it was my first experience with slashing blocks up and then sewing them back together.  From a quilting standpoint, this was the first time I’ve used circle templates to create the curve of my feathers.  I  have always admired that look of tightly curled feathers, and now I know that I also love the physical action of stitching them that way!

I’m not wild about how they spring from the center of that border, but I can live with that.  More photos:

All of the slashed blocks are just stitched in the ditch; it seemed like it would be too much to do anything else there.  The sashings between the slashed blocks just have long featherettes:  

Personally, I like the juxtaposition of the rigid linear strips against the flowing curves of all the feathers:

The outermost border is a series of arched swags with tapered channels; all stitched with my PTD 12 arc.  The stitch in the ditch was all done by ruler work using my straight line ruler:

Hospice Donation Quilt #4 for the period of 10/1/18-9/30/19:

Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Hospice Quilt Project.

2 Comments

1. Pat Says:
   
   December 1st, 2018 at 6:44 am

   Would be very interested in seeing via video, how you used the circle templates to create the areas for feathers. If you have time………..

2. Kathy Steigleder Says:
   
   December 1st, 2018 at 11:35 pm

   I’m finding your quick projects appealing to look at. They use “your” colors but are a new direction. It’s good to see that detailed quilting can go with improv piecing. This give me some new ideas!