A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be asked to make a quilt for a lady.
She wanted pale lemon, orange, white and no floral fabrics and lots of quilted feathers!
After thinking about it for a while and searching around, I opted for this block. It's called
Goose in the Pond,
It measures a whopping 221/2" so it was a perfect size to provide me with biggish areas to quilt.
I made 6 and arranged them in a 2x3 layout with some narrow sashing and cornerstones.
I finished with a wide border as I'm planning lots of swirly feathers there.
This is the quilting underway ....
I'm using a lightweight 4oz polyester wadding as I wanted quite a puffy effect. I had originally basted the quilte with Hobbs Heirloom bleached white wadding. It was lovely and soft but rather flat looking, so I decided to switch.
Here is a close up of the quilting. I am using one of those water soluble pens to mark the center circle in the squares and the spines in the triangles.
The sun is casting strange shadows in this photo - looks like it has dirty marks on it but it hasn't!
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Two blocks done!
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And this is as far as I've got so far. I ran out of white thread, but am fully stocked again and ready to go.
Hoping to get the bulk of it finished this week.
Have a great week and I'll be back soon.
Rhianon.
