Our modern quilt guild did a feather swap this year with the AMH pattern. This weekend at the meeting I received my swapped feathers. I have been giving this lots of thought and came up with Birds of a Feather, a free form arrangement of the blocks.
With the swap I will receive a total of 13 to add to the extras I made along with my birdies. I am still playing with some arrangements and I am missing one of the feathers, thats Ok since it will be part of the outter border.
The only decision I made for sure is I don't want them lined up so I will be adding extra white spaces, more negative places to play with the quilting is a must!
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Speaking of quilting, I have now had my Tiara for a year. I play on it all the time praticing between quilts. My feather quilt will have no straight lines so wish me luck, this isnt a tiny quilt. Guess who has a new book, so fun.
Off to sew,
Pam
Wonderful feathers and beautiful quilting! I can't wait to see the finished feather top.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see how you are going to use those fun bird paper piecing blocks - love it! I think you will have a lot of fun quilting this one! How big do you want it to finish out as?
ReplyDeleteThis is SO awesome!! I can't wait to see how you work your quilty magic with this one!! Your 'playtime' looks fabulous! Very cool to incorporate your bird blocks into this quilt! Judy
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be a great quilt! I love the quilting you are "playing" with. So fun!
ReplyDeleteWow! Those feathers and birds look amazing together! I can't wait to see what you end up doing for the arrangement. And the quilting will obviously be gorgeous. Your practice piece looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteLove the feathers and your quilting is just awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love the addition of the birds.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be an amazing quilt. I love the combination of feathers and birds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous quilt! Enjoy all that quilting : )
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is exquisite!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty - I love the feathers, what a great idea for a swap! Your quilting is incredible too!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your design wall arrangement and having the birds in there adds the perfect touch!
ReplyDeleteI love the feathers and the birds. It's going to be beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove the birds in the midst of all those gorgeous feathers! Can't wait to see this finished!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea to add birds to your feathers. You layout looks so interesting. It will be fun to see the changes you make. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the mix of feathers with those bird blocks. This is my first visit to your blog....time to go read more posts.
ReplyDeletelove those feathers and your quilting is impressive
ReplyDeleteThe feathers and birds are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love this! The colours, everything! I keep seeing that AMH block and it makes me want to make that pattern. And adding the birds is genius, what a great theme for a quilt!
ReplyDeleteLove the feathers and Birds combo!!! Nice variety from the usual of just feather quilts. : )
ReplyDeleteLove the addition of the birds. Looking good!
ReplyDeleteI love love love your feather and bird quilt! Just gorgeous - the birds are a great addition. : )
ReplyDeleteHi! I've been wanting to start a quilting block swap but I have no clue where to go to get started. Any tips on how to start a swap? I love your quilt! So beautiful!
ReplyDeletePam, your feather and bird quilt is going to be so awesome! I love what you did with your quilting too!
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful! How did you make the birds?
ReplyDeleteThe birds are paper pieced patterns I got free off Craftsy
DeleteThanks so MUCH!! I have AMH's pattern (of course I do, I have a real thing for feather quilts) and I love birds as well. PP is my favortie quilting techinque so this project is perfect for me. Do you mind suppling the name of the birds.
DeleteI look forward to seeing your final results!!
The bluebird is by Liljabs and the Kereru is by Tartankiwi both free on Craftsy. Would love to see yours when its done
DeleteI love your idea for the feather quilt.
ReplyDeleteWell done. Looks great with the birds! I also like your quilting - very nice!
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible! What a great swap project.
ReplyDeleteThe birds are inspired!
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