Here is the 8th part in my Feather Practice Series. This series of handouts are intended for newer quilters or for anyone wanting to brush up on feather practice. I happen to love feathers for feminine quilts, and feel that this is a wonderful skill to have in your quilting tool box!
featherpractice8-1 (pdf)
Today, we are focusing on feathering spines or small borders. Right click to download my PDF file. Note that you will need a PDF reader to view this file.
Handout by Carla Barrett
The second design in the handout I have used before in my quilting. Here is a photo from the back of a quilt, but you can see this feather being used:
For Barb Kiehn’s wonderful Egyptian Theme quilt, notice the stylized feathers in the border. I quilted sashing sized spaces to fill with a variation of sashing #2 in the handout:
Hope this gives you additional ideas for using this feather design on your quilts. If you use any of my handouts on one of your quilts, I would love to see the results! In case you missed an earlier Feather Series, here are the links for each part:
Feather Practice- Part 1, Feather Practice- Part 2, Feather Practice- Part 3, Feather Practice- Part 4, Feather Practice- Part 5, Feather Practice- Part 6, and Feather Practice- Part 7
Happy Feathering, everyone! Let me know if you would like more of the feather series, too, by leaving a comment. Hugs, Carla
Always happy to have more feathers Carla – Appreciated all you send to us.
I say bring on the feathers! I’m enjoying all of your help not to mention seeing all of your beautiful work! Thanks for sharing, Carla.
Carla, you make it look so easy! I enjoy following along with your tutorials and I hope you will keep doing them. You are a great teacher.
Loving all your ways of designing feathers. Never get tired of seeing your work. Thank YOU.
Again, a job so very beautifully done!!! Thank you for your continued sharing.
Carla, definitely please continue posting feather practice sheets. These have been wonderful to use.
Judy
Carla, I am really enjoying your classes on here. I have been practicing on paper and I’m about ready to start on my longarm to see if I can do it. Thank you so much for your time and energy to allow us the chance to learn how to do feathers. God Bless
Hi Debbie, you are very welcome! Remember to use guide lines as first if that will help you. Nothing wrong with marking, so long as it is removed from the quilt.
Oh yes please, more practice ideas for your beautiful feathering, Carla–and many, many thanks for sharing your expertise with all of us! Hugs, Bobbi