Simon took both James and Eleanor sailing on Saturday, so I got stuck in. I laid out all my pieces, and was just pressing the final seam when they got home.
I did most of the quilting last night, using a flower variation on my open feathers I worked out recently.
It's just one open feather plume to each side, then a swirl up from the centre, and 4-6 half-circle petals around the top of the swirl. Then repeat. It fills the quilt nicely, and I just threw in a few extra plumes here and there to fill odd spaces or get myself out of a corner.
The working name for this quilt is Garden Paths, and it will be appearing in AP&Q later this year. It's fun and pretty easy and makes a lovely baby's play quilt.
Emma, I just LOVE your 'flower and plume" all-over quilting design! Thank you so much for describing how you accomplished it.
ReplyDeleteI find thinking of quilting designs the most difficult part of quilting these days and am *always* looking for ideas so that I'm not constantly using the same tried-and-true ones over and over. :-)
A totally off-topic comment: our middle daughter spent a semester in Perth in 2011 during her 3rd year in university. She absolutely LOVED living and going to school there. We live in California and are used to traveling a fair amount of distances to get to places, but Perth has got us beat hands-down! Boy, Perth is waaaay out in the middle of nowhere!
Thanks again for your sharing your quilting!
It looks like flannel fabric. Is it? Your quilting design is very pretty. I like the openness of it. Looks like fun and relatively easy to quilt.
ReplyDeletefresh and cheerful color! Beautuful!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely FMQ design, thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteThank you!! This blog post inspired my stitching!
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And I linked this post on my blog
http://hitaswhimsy.blogspot.com/2017/04/right-place-at-right-time.html
Happy quilting to you!!
I just came across your site...shat a beautiful quilting pattern for the quilt top!! It is inspiration to me since I am slowly working on learning FMQ. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
ReplyDeleteThank you for showing us all this awesome FMQ pattern! This design really appeals to me as it looks nice & easy, and forgiving as well.
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