It had been a very long time since I’d done a Drunkard’s Path quilt, but I do like the curves in this design. When I saw a new technique of doing them online, I couldn’t resist. I dug out some beautiful batiks I’d inherited from a local quilter who had passed away and used them to make Cecilia’s Circles. I named the quilt after the quilter who’d given me the fabrics. This was entirely machine pieced and machine quilted. For the quilting, I used a variegated purple/raspberry thread, drawing the curve of the spine of each feather onto the block and then doing the feathers themselves freehand. I didn’t think this particular quilt needed a border; I didn’t like the idea of the circles and partial circles being “contained” by any border. Here is the finished quilt, which measures 45″ x 45″, and which I completed in April, 2011.
The next two photos show a close-up of the quilting from the front and from the back of the quilt:
