This is the second quilt I’ve made specifically for Mike. It started in a class with Jackie Robinson at Quilt Camp in the Pines in 2003; that’s where she taught the pattern for the top. I’ve made this one in what she calls a lap quilt size, though it’s the biggest lap quilt I’ve ever seen. 😉 It measures approximately 70″ x 87″! After I’d finished the top, it sat around for a long time while I debated how I was going to quilt it; I knew I wanted curves and that the curves would probably have to be feathers; but I was put off by the prospect of having to mark all of those feathers for quilting. However, Kathy Sandbach then taught a class (the Infinite Feather) at Quilt Camp in 2004, and that was what I needed. I now knew how to do feathers without all of the painful pre-marking. I quilted feathers in matching threads in almost every section of the quilt except for the parts that look like trees; those were quilted with a tree motif — sort of. 😉 I also did different motifs in two of the teal/turquoise sections. The cream log cabins have feathers in undulating rows; the aqua stars have feathered wreaths; the purple log cabins have rows of single feathers; the cream feathered star points have feathered sprays. The quilt was machine pieced and quilted, and I finished it in October, 2004. Here is the front:
And here are a couple of details of the back so you can see some of the quilting:
