Last week Monday's Post was Over All Feathering. Today let's take a look at Feathering in borders and in the center of blocks. Free Style Feathers fill a border of a quilt beautifully!
The feathering in these borders is complimented with swirls. The feathering is in both borders, but they are more visual on the light border. I changed thread colors for the light and dark areas.
The feathering on this plain quilt really dresses it up. Made it look a little fancier.
My customer made this quilt three times and I quilted each one with very similar feathering. I quilted with a light color thread in the light areas and with a green on the dark areas of the quilt. What a wonderful Christmas gift for her daughters!
This quilt was the first quilt I tried feathering in the border, way back in 2004! I have learned a lot since then. Everyday is a learning experience.
Feathering in a circular fashion in the solid areas on this quilt gives it an interesting motion. I quilted a double wiggle line in the narrow border and then more feathering in the outside border.
Each Monday, I choose a different style of my free style quilting. You can click on the link in the top side bar to see past posts of my quilting. There is also a link in the side bar to my photo gallery. I quilt customer's quilts five days a week and I take photos of my quilting to share. I am very blessed to have job that I love...
Hope you are having a great start to your week!
Marcia
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Thoughts and photos shared by me ... Marcia. I am a professional modern freestyle long arm quilter and a fiber artist, a photographer, and a novice gardener. I love to create quilted items using old and new fabrics. I am also a mother, a daughter, a friend, a wife and a Grandmama! I am a blogger and I share it all here... Welcome!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Feathering in the Borders and More!
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5 comments:
Your quilting is amazing!!
Beautiful, As Usual
Love your quilting....but I also love that Asian quilt. I need to make an asian quilt someday. Then send to you for quilting!
So many beautiful quilts and gorgeous quilting. I know I need to practice, practice, practice. Your quilting is very inspiring to me. Thanks for sharing.
I just wanted to say that your work is stunning!
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