Wednesday 23 November 2011

Feather Background

This quilt was made by Debbie. Although the background was made with the same fabric over the entire quilt, I wanted to break it into three areas – the appliqué border, the pieced border, and the centre.

To do this, I quilted two backgrounds. Small curls around the pieced border, and feathers in the other two areas. I love the texture and movement the feathers give, which is in keeping with the traditional style and fabrics of the quilt.


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17 comments:

  1. Gorgeous feathers! I love how you've incorporated them into the design!!

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  2. It looks like frosting on a cake! YUM!!

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  3. I'm getting to like the idea more and more of using feathers around applique. It looks lovely.

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  4. It looks great Desley, as per the usual, you've really tapped in to the right quilting design for the quilt. Always great seeing your beautiful workmanship.

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  5. Oh Desley, is a great quiting an a beautiful Quilt

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  6. That's beautiful Desley, you've got the right balance there.

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  7. Beautiful! You have just given me an idea of how to approach our guilds newest project with breaking up the background like you did.

    I have a small request. You need to have a 5 picture minimum on your blog posts and the fifth being a close up of your quilting. :)

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  8. Desley - that is a truly gorgeous quilt! And your quilting makes it so. Congratulations to you both.

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  9. Another awesome work of Art!
    (I hope you keep before and after pics.)

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  10. You do such beautiful work!!

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  11. I love the contrast between the curls and the feathers. Beautiful!

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  12. Hi! Great finishing touches, perfect for the wonderful quilt! Wonderful quilting!
    Take care, Leslie

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  13. Hi Desley.. I saw this one up close and personal in a class in Newcastle....even better in real life!

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