Purple Feathers

My Client brought me this quilt and said - I just want some feathers on it, and make it look pretty. You know? I think I like it when Clients say that. I had a BLAST quilting this quilt.

In the purple I drew curving feathers, and in the whites I offset the curviness with straight lines.

I really liked this effect!

In the tiny purple border I used a squiggly line that echoed what I did in the white.

I tried to get down on the floor...

I LOVE the texture!!

This was a fun quilt to do.

Now I want to make one!!

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Finished Friday

I am feeling the finished at this time of year!! It is so exciting to help finish up quilts for Christmas!!  

Of course, not every quilt is for Christmas! Dianne pieced this beauty to send to the Hurricane Sandy victims. Quilters are the most compassionate people that I know!

Here is the total view. Mind you, it is not trimmed. Most customers prefer to trim them themselves.

A couple of close up shots. The blocks were all different. I loved them. The fabrics choices were wonderful!

We really wanted this to be a usable quilt, and one that would bring comfort. So I used an all over design, that not only enhanced the piecing  but made sure that it would be sturdy for lots of use.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this quilt pieced by Dianne. I am linking up to http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/  for Finished Friday.

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A Blue Block of the Month

Blue seems to be a popular color around here this time of year. 

I loved this quilt. It had a lot of open spaces that needed to be filled, and very wide borders. There was a lot of space for the Quilting to show up.

Click on the pictures to see better. The quilting really added texture and dimensions to the quilt.

And of course, the backing is always fun to look at. When it is a solid back the quilting really shows up well. 

I will be linking up with http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ for finished Friday

A Very Blue Quilt

This quilt was made by a client of mine, and all she knew was that she liked feathers. She wanted the quilt to be quilted densely.... and those were the instructions....

I used lots of wavy feathers, and a very light blue thread. Sew Fine Thread to be exact.

Each block was quilted seperately with an individual Feather

I fell in love with the texture on the back. She did too. She thought it was a competely reversible quilt.

Hope you enjoyed seeing some close ups of this quilt. I sure enjoyed quilting it.