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!
Two blocks done! |
Hoping to get the bulk of it finished this week.
Have a great week and I'll be back soon.
Rhianon.
Wow! Your quilting looks amazing, it transforms the quilt. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful! It's amazing how the quilting can to it from so-so to fabulous!
ReplyDeleteTHIS is absolutely GORGEOUS Rhianon!!!! Your quilting is coming along in leaps and bounds - and your feathering is just divine!!!! I SOOO love how you've gone quilting this piece!! x
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, this is absolutely amazing! Quite inspiring!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful...so happy to see it.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular, Amazing, Gorgeous! Your quilting is Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHave a super great sewing, stitching, quilting day!
Gorgeous - I can't wait to see it finished!!!
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