In January, 2008, I took a machine quilting class from Sue Nickels. It was wonderful! I’ve enjoyed all of the classes I’ve had on how to do feathers, and I’ve learned something new from each; this time I was finally successful in being able to draw feathers so as to be able to draft feathered motifs to fit a specific space. As part of the class, we all had to design a feathered quilt, and this is the one I designed:
I finished it in February, 2008, and it will probably become a quilt for one of our dogs, since I messed up the back during the basting. 😉 It measures approximately 23″ x 23″ and was quilted with lavender thread. Here’s a detail of the quilting: