February Free Motion Quilting Challenge

Free-Motion Quilting ChallengeI’m taking part in SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge this year. Diane Gaudynski was the guest teacher for February. She’s one of my favorites! Her quilts are drop-jaw gorgeous!!! So today I spent some time playing with feathers.

feather practice

I decided to use a fat quarter of Kona cotton, which I divided into three panels so I could experiment with three different feathers.

For the first two feathers, I used 60 wt Bottom Line thread. For the last one, I changed to 40 wt Highlights. It was fun trying to think of variations on the basic feather. I was getting rushed toward the end, but I wanted to finish today, so the quilting lines became more careless toward the end. Ah, well.

Earlier today, I worked more on my resist samples.

Resist experimentFor this one, I applied the resit with stenciling, stamping, and hand painting with various tools. The yellow and rust colored areas are where I mixed ink into the resist, just to see what happens. I hope to have time to paint it tomorrow so I can write my article and have one more thing to cross off my to-do list.


Comments

7 responses to “February Free Motion Quilting Challenge”

  1. So awesome! Your feathers are expert!

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    Sharon Driver

    great feathers, Maria! I’m still practicing….mine are looking less like cabbages..!

    Resist sample looks great!

    1. Can’t wait to see them, Sharon.

  3. Very, very nice! You really have a flair for feathers! I think that would be FFF! Lol

  4. Beautiful job on your feathers!

  5. Gorgeous feathers, Maria!