FMQ Challenge February

Sooo, this months challenge is feathers! My initial thought? Are they crazy!!! I can´t do feathers!!! There is no way I can ever do feathers!!!
This challenge really scared the heck out of me, I have to admit that. But I took the pledge, so I have to try, right=) I really liked the tutorial by Diane Gaudynski, lots of pictures and really great explanations. She also gave some really good tips on how to solve common problems.

I started by drawing the design on paper. I always do that to get a feel for the design before I mess up my quilt...=)

This is NOT my first atempt...more like the 30th, and I still can´t get it to look the way I want it to. But sooner or later I had to get to the sewing. I was so intimidated by this design I forgot to pick up speed, so my stitches are about a mile long...

And it´s really wonky! An hour later it´s still wonky, but the stitches are better.

The echoing is really difficult to me, it gets wonky and uneven. And for some reason my feathers end up really long, when I want them to be compact and chubby. But I do see an improvement after just one hour, so I really feel that given enough practice I could master this too=) I´ll have to get back to this design when I have more time.

Take care,
Åsa

For charity

Last week I finally got around to donating a bunch of babyquilts to charity. They were all sewn last year, but they kind of got stuck in my closet for a while=) My plan is to donate 20 babyquilts this year, so these are the first ten.

I´m going to use this project to finish up my scraps and practice my freemotion quilting, and do some good in the process=)

Take care,

Åsa