The quilting challenge for this month was feathers and was taught by Diane Gaudynski. I really had a lot of fun practicing these on a pillow case I was making for myself. The pattern was from the most recent issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. They didn’t quilt it in the pattern, but I wanted a nice fluffy pillow case so I quilted it and used it as a practice block. I chose not to mark it, but just used my spine as the guide and feathered away. Sometimes I only feathered on one side and adding feathers to a feather was my favorite part. This is just my practice, I still have to add feathers to a block on my sampler quilt which I will do as soon as I get more time between working, gardening, upgrading the shed and visiting with family. Sewing seems to get put aside once in a while for other things, but that gives my life balance and keeps me from getting bored with any one thing. Really I don’t seem to focus too long on any one project. I seem to hop from one thing to another and I can say that being bored is never a problem for me.
I will probably be doing another post on more feathers being done on my other project in the near future! Practicing all this free motion quilting is giving me the confidence I need to finish some of the quilt tops that have been pieced quite a while ago, some even a few years ago. Funny thing is that as nervous as I was about doing them once I get started it just feels so much easier than I thought and they get done in very little time. I even enjoy hand sewing the bindings. I can take a project to work and work on the hand sewing during my lunch and before I know it the whole quilt is done and ready to be washed and enjoyed, the best part!
Tickled by a feather~
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