One busted machine later, I am finally done! This turned out to be an experimental quilt for me -- I did some pretty ambitious (for me) quilting that I enjoyed immensely. My technique did improve significantly toward the end of the quilt, so more than ever I'm a proponent of "practice, practice, practice!"
These are the feather details I'm happy to show -- some of the earlier feathers on this quilt do not stand up to close scrutiny. I chose to do the feathers on the patterned parts and stippling on the solid white, whereas it might make more sense to do this in the reverse. I thought since I am fairly new at FMQ, doing the more detailed work on the patterned sections would be more forgiving.
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| Feather detail on one of the bottom triangles. |
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| Feather detail on corner triangle. |
Since it took me so long to quilt this darn thing, I decided to go with a machine binding technique that I read about
here on
Red Pepper Quilts. I do love the look of hand binding, but I gotta say, this technique is SO much faster.
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| The stitch-in-the-ditch on the front binding blended in well after washing. |
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| Top-stitching detail on the back side of the binding that results from machine binding. |
All in all, I'm happy with how this quilt turned out and am even more excited to move on to new projects (and other WIPS). PS. I love, love, love my new Janome 6600!
2 comments:
Wow! Those feathers look amazing!! And yay for Janome love. :)
Love this quilt of yours! I think your FMQ is great. I have looked around for this pattern but cannot find it. Would you mind sharing what it is? Thank you.
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