Today, I present the Feather Practice Series, Part 7. This quilting feather handout shows you four different ways to feather an inset triangle space on a quilt top. Any of these feathers, quilted in all the inset triangles on a quilt top, will flow visually from triangle to triangle. It will also draw the eye around the quilt and provide some beautiful texture, too.
featherpracticehandout7 (pdf) (Right click to download. You will need a PDF reader)
Feather Practice 7.1 by Carla Barrett
Above are 4 different variations of my inset triangle feathers. Below is the 2nd page, which is where you will practice drawing on:
Feather Practice handout by Carla Barrett
Note, too, that you can just feather the outer side of the spine for a different look.
quilting example by Carla Barrett
You may also decide to fill the blank space with curved cross-hatching or other fill, too, like I have drawn below:
feather example by Carla Barrett
Hope you are enjoying my Feather Practice Series! I have enjoyed all the quilters who have taken the time to comment, contact me via email or tell me they are loving it. I appreciate your kind words! In case you missed an earlier Feather Practice, here are the links:
Feather Practice- Part 1, Feather Practice- Part 2, Feather Practice- Part 3, Feather Practice- Part 4, Feather Practice- Part 5, and Feather Practice- Part 6
Have fun PPP- which means Practice, Practice, Practice! Now go forth and feather! Carla
I have some corner triangles on a quilt I’m working on. I was planning on doing feathers. It’s nice to see an example of how you deal with them. Thanks for sharing Carla
Good to hear from you, Norma! Hugs, C
I just discovered your site this week, and appreciate all your great tutorials!
Hi Pat, nice to meet you! Welcome!
I too just discovered your site. These tutorials are just what I have been looking for….thanks so much.
Hi Debbie, so glad you found my site!
Wonderful Carla. I think there will be lots of follows from SewCalGals ‘fmq challenge of 2012 on Facebook… following you now – your tutorials here are wonderful and so gratefully appreciated
Thank you, Joan! I appreciate your kindness and support. How have you been?
Thanks for providing these tutorials. I’m a long time longarm quilter (not quilting for others anymore) and it’s always fun to practice feathers…especially since I don’t quilt that much anymore!
Hi Carolyn, yes, it is nice to keep our skills up. I quilt part time now myself, so I have time to teach, design, etc. Have fun!!
oh thank you so much for this tutorial!
Hi there, just found your blog – a friend brought it to my attention. Trying to learn FMQ and trying feathers at the moment. Huge Thank You for sharing all this information. Off now to look around and to download the rest of your tutorials.
Marianne
Thank you very much for all so great Tutorials, Carla!
Just found your great tutorials on feather quilting thanks to Sheryl at Quilting Tizzy. I’m just getting to the point of feeling confident enough to try free motion quilting and these are just what I need to give me that push to keep at it. Thanks so much!
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Wonderful tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing.