Recently I have been practicing free-motion feathers marking
only the spine. Leah Day has a feather filler that looks really interesting,
but I have not tried to fill a large area with multiple feathers, only triangles in my Pina Colada quilt.
A couple of days ago I luckily found Angela Walters’
photo tutorial for sketching feathers
I loved the look of her feathers which appear similar to
Leah’s, only larger. I wanted to try
some on my lonestar quilt. First I
practiced on paper and plexiglass placed over the area of my quilt where I
wanted the quilting.
This morning when I checked my email, I read about viewing free
videos by Sharon Schamber at “The Quilt Show”. They are free this holiday weekend. Her work is much more detailed but I decided to try some on this
same quilt.
Episode 1 - Longarm and Domestic Eastern Henna Stipples (Heart
and Butterfly) http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/sharon_schamber2.php/episode/1
Episode 2 - Longarm and Domestic Eastern Henna Feather (Layering
Your Design)
I
am mostly pleased with the quilting and will quilt more of the free-motion
feathers on other quilts when appropriate.
Hope
you check out these resources and add these designs to your quilting repertoire.
Maybe tomorrow I will quilt the border and have this quilt ready to bind.
This is great. love it
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