Saturday, January 24, 2015

Free Hand Feathers

Oh  how I love to quilt feathers.  This was the perfect opportunity for me to load up a quilt with feathers. Look at the tiny 1/2 sq triangles in that one block.  They were hand pieced into this top.  All 36 into that one block.  Wow.


MH wanted either feathers or Baptist Fans, and since my BF is done with templates, not a board or a computer, I chose to free hand feathers and do curves in all the smaller triangles on this very large top..


The backing was a beautiful print, but the quilting still showed up nicely.


There is a lucky guy out there getting gifted this amazing quilt. 


I hope he appreciates all the time that has been put into the making of this quilt.  The colors and fabrics are gorgeous, one continuous background and then a variety of blues and greens.  The greens are very random and really make this pop.


If you want hand guided feathers on one of your quilts, please consider me for the quilting.  I am quilting full time and can be contacted via my email.

 


I hope you get some stitching time in this weekend,
Sharon

10 comments:

Louise said...

Fabulous quilt and quilting, Sharon..i love feathers as well and you do them so well! They say quilting makes the quilt but I think in this case both the piecing and quilting make this a great one.

Karen said...

Pretty!

Nifty Quilts said...

Wow! Beautiful!!!

Dora, the Quilter said...

Sharon, I absolutely agree with you. There is something just so very happy about quilting feathers--and I love to look at them later too. The first time I saw quilted feathers, when I was just a tiny young thing, I knew I wanted to quilt them when I grew up!
I like your combination of feathers with other quilting too.

Janet O. said...

Gorgeous work, Sharon!

Mimi said...

Beautiful job Sharon. I just love feathers and you are right, this quilt just called for feathers.

Nancy said...

Beautiful quilt and beautiful quilting.
I love your feather Sharon.

Kyle said...

Your work is gorgeous

sewyouquilt2 said...

gorgeous. he sure is lucky!

Mrs. Goodneedle said...

Absolutely STUNNING quilting, what a gorgeous quilt!