feathers continued

Work on the feather quilt is going well. I have outlined the feathers as you can see on this picture of the fabric at the back. By simply outlining the shape the feathers will show up at their best.

When this was done there were still some open spaces on the quilt. Some additional quilting was needed. To stay within the theme I decided to quilt the words of the title of the quilt in these open spaces. Using Words I found a font which I liked. Here you see how the word 'feather' looks like. The title of this quilt will be 'Birds of a feather'.

I am linking this with Nina-Marie and her Off the Wall Friday Blog.

feathers

Summer 2011 I started working on 4 big quilt tops. All are around 40"x40". Two of them are completed: Swallows of San Juan and Snowy Owl. And this week I started working on number 3. The background I dyed dark. Don't remember anymore which colors I used for this. On this background I screen printed white feathers. Now it was time to make the sandwich and start the quilting. After some googling I came up with this bird design which I copied into different sizes on Golden Paper. The pieces of paper were pinned on the sandwich like this:

Stitchting black on black is not something you want to do for a long time. So every day it is time for some birdies. Here are the pictures after the stitching, taken from the back:

 And taken from the front:



Yes, I still have to remove the thread ends :-). To be continued.