Feathers for Friday

Baby feathers

36 by 36 inches

machine pieced and quilted

I've got two finishes for this Friday, both with lots of freehand feathers.

This one features a round wreath of feathers in the white blocks,

and square wreath of feathers in the pieced blocks.

Ever since I bought my Juki a year ago, I've been practicing free motion quilting

and I've gotten the hang of free hand feathers.

(I still stink at basic stippling. go figure.)

Other than the circles I drew for the stem of the feathers

these are entirely freehand.

Here's a view of the back.

Since I was using up scraps from another baby quilt,

I pieced together the green and blue patches

to make the one yard of backing to fit the quilt.

I have to say I'm used to buying a metre (39 inches) of fabric

so a yard seems really short.

I used a blue and white dot print from American Jane for the binding.

I used a Hobbs polydown batt in it,

which gives the feathers lots of loft. 

 Scrappy coin quilt

32 by 34 inches

machine pieced and quilted

This little quilt uses up old scraps and new

and has machine quilted ribbons in a variegated thread in the middle

and freehand fans around the blue border.

I was planning on a dark binding

until I found enough cut, pieced, and pressed binding

in the blue border print, leftover from another quilt

so I used that up.

Here both quilts are lying in the snowy shadows of my front yard

in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,

to show off the texture from the feathers.

Both these quilts will be donated to a good cause

as part of my guild's

Year of the Baby Quilt project.

I'm linking up with Amanda's Finish It Fridays

and Amy Lou. 

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