Feather Practice

Well after a busy day yesterday doing food shopping, washing, ironing and housework and NO sewing I was itching to do something in the evening.
In the morning I had read Monika's blog and she had made a lovely cushion which inspired me to get working on some feathers.

First of all, I watched Karen McTavish's tutorial on creating Victorian feathers.
Then I practiced on paper :

I only marked some spines on the fabric, the rest is freehand.

I used a rainbow coloured varigated thread so it would show up nicely .

                                                            I quilted all the feathers first..............

...... then filled in the background with some pebbling.

It's the first time I've quilted feathers using the 'bump bump' method and I really enjoyed it.

I think I've managed to create a billowing effect with the feathers, which I am very pleased about.

I am planning to do this in the borders of my QAYG project so the aim was to fill a space wider than a narrow strip.
I feel confident I can do this now.

The finished piece measures 18" square approx and took me 2 hours to complete.

Okay, I'm going to go and finish the prairie point blocks now so I can get on with quilting more feathers.
Have a great monday everyone.
Rhianon.