I had dropins at two of the guilds I belong to, so on Saturday, at the
Blue Mountain Quilter's Guild, I sandwiched my Rainbow UFO that has been
sitting languishing around for 3 years, waiting to be quilted! I started this quilt at my very first BMQG retreat - got the top pieced that weekend - along with a couple of other tops - one of which has long been finished, the other one is also still waiting for me to finish the border and get quilting - so it has been long over due.
It is bright! I love the vibrabcy in it! It will be so nice to finally get it done.
On Sunday, at the first ever
Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild dropin, I got some more done on it. All told I'm probably about 3/4 finished the colourful middle, quilting it with, what else??? feathers! and just have to decide how I'm going to quilt the borders - any suggestions?
There are no good pictures of the border, but its a dark purply blue, 3 inch border.
I've used a varigated rainbow coloured thread on top, and a varigated purple, blue, pink thread in the bobbin.
Hopefully, I'll get a chance to get the quilting finished in the next week or so, and then I can go work on my DQS10 quilt!
Happy quilting!
THis looks wonderul Karen - I love your FMQ and the choice of thread. I wish I was brave enough to do as you are doing - it just looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does look fantastic. A great sewing weekend indeed!
ReplyDeleteThis bali quilt is lovely - nice colours :-)
ReplyDeletepretty pretty!!
ReplyDeleteGreat fabrics and beautiful quilting!!! I bet you will be happy to have it all done.
ReplyDeleteJanet, your feather quilting is remarkable!!!! I just watched a Ricky Tims DVD on feather quilting, and I must say, you are an expert. I need to watch you in action some more...
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll bring this all finished for Show and Tell to the VMQG retreat!
Wow, I didn't know you went to TWO sew-ins over the weekend! It was a treat to see you free motion quilting these feathers onto your vibrant quilt. Good for you for tackling a UFO!
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