Featherstone Quiltworks

I finished quilting a friend’s quilt.  The front was very busy, and I knew quilting wouldn’t show much on the front.  She just wanted it quilted and done.  So I reached for “Feather Feather” by Kathie James.   Here is a shot of the back:

Two rows of feathers = 13.5″.  It makes for a nice soft drape to the quilt.  Here’s what’s on my machine today.  It’s another customer quilt, and I like what I’m doing in the center blocks.  Just loops, leaves, curls, and flowers.  Another case of, do whatever you think is best, I just need it done.  About an hour left to do on it this morning.

 I don’t think I’ve shown this quilt before.  This hangs over the staircase in our house.  I made this quilt in a class several years ago with Celine Perkins (Perkins Drygoods) before she was quite so busy with her own designs.  (She is a wonderful teacher, by the way, and try her patterns!  They are fun, easy, and her instructions are impeccable.) 

The pattern is a Kaye England design, and I really enjoyed making it.  The quilting doesn’t show, but I decided to do sampler quilting, and each block is quilted differently.  There was even a block of the dreaded applique’, but it was worth it as it is the focus of the quilt.  My color scheme was that each block would have a black print, a cream print, and a color, and they are civil war reproduction fabrics.

I like it so well, I turned it on its side and it is today’s puzzle in a Tetris cut:

Sue