winners of vicki welsh’s navajo hand dyed fabric ~

thank you for all the sweet and kind comments, i really do appreciate the precious time you all spend coming to the blog and reading what i’ve been “up to!” 

and i have been spending lots of time quilting, preparing some of my things for entry into a christmas craft show locally, and re-filling the etsy store, too… and finally took some time to take photos yesterday.  

so, let’s move on into a new piece i’ve quilted, using the navajo gradient from vicki, this time i went to my free motion couching foot, and yes… more feathers!

 feathers ~ feathers ~ there is so much to explore in feather motifs, that’s for sure!  and i’m going to be practicing them lots more, varying my styles, and seeing if i can push myself beyond my comfort zone, and into some new variations, and technique improvement overall.

 this gradient has such beautiful changes in intensity of color! {as all of them do}, but i never tire of  how the quilting, the thread choices, and overall color of those factors affect the visual complexity of this piece.  

 and the feather motif in the background was accomplished using “twist” by superior threads.  i love the powerful impact of these two colors, twisted together on one spool, and i’ve started experimenting more with them!  after couching the feathers with a prety yarn, i outlined them with razzle dazzle, from the bobbin {known as bobbin play} and then began the overall quilting surrounding the feathers: