sneak peek of quilting on feathered star quilt

Adding quilting

Wow! I just realized that it’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything! Good thing I don’t really have a schedule, right? 😉 Anyway, I’ve been dithering about how I wanted to quilt my current quilt, but I’ve also made some decisions. This is a “teaser” to show that […]

Feathered Star quilt top

The top is finished!

Just yesterday, this is what my latest quilt top looked like: As you can probably see, the center square was complete, but I hadn’t yet attached the borders. Those border sections to surround the outer triangles, which are just pinned in place, weren’t even cut out, as I was still […]

LeMoyne Star center

A little progress

I think I’ve cut out all of the major pieces for my current project — it took a while, since I had to wait for the black background fabric to arrive. However, I’ve now pieced the central LeMoyne Star and have begun working on the feathered star that surrounds it. […]

fabric selections

Next project

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been taking a fantastic set of online classes from Philippa Naylor. The last class in the series is a tutorial on making a feathered star quilt with a LeMoyne Star center. I’ve always loved both feathered stars and LeMoyne Stars, so this was a no-brainer […]

picture of colorful quilt

Dragonfly Playground

The latest quilt is now finished! I had such a good time quilting this one, especially since I wasn’t constantly fighting the weight as I moved it around under my Bernina, thanks to my new suspension system. The background fabric is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is […]

quilting in progress with suspension system

New quilting tool

One of the most difficult things about quilting on a domestic machine is managing the bulk and weight of the quilt. For some time now, I’ve been looking at a couple of tools that claim to help hold the weight to make quilting easier and less tiring. One of those […]