Friday, January 17, 2014

Free Motion Feather

As recommended by Leah Day of the Free Motion Quilting Project, I try to do a little free motion play every day. My latest effort involved a feather.

I quilted a square, stitched a feather with a row of echo stitching, then drew cross-hatched lines in the remaining white space. I filled those with lines, experimenting with various textures and directions. This experimental design will definitely find its way to a quilt some day.

background feather

If you are playing with free motion quilting, why not link up with Leah and share your work.

5 comments:

  1. It is so relaxing to take a sandwich and just quilt, and its such great practice. Your square is really nice.

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  2. I love the combination of cross hatching and the feather. Looks great!

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  3. Very pretty Susan... Love the feathers and the background stitching...

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  4. The crosshatch really makes the feather POP! looks great!

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  5. You are really a clewer free motion quilter! Thanks a lot for the nice comment on my blog!

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