I designed the pattern using pencil, paper, a scanner, and Adobe Illustrator on my computer. A tight fill flattens the backgroud so the feathers pop. The fill patterns are small because I learned the hard way a that a large, curved meander makes feathers disappear. I used seven different fills from the Fills with Skill class: Echo, stipple, spiral, pebbles, straight lines and the wineglass pattern ( Diane Guadynski’s “Diane-shiko”). These feathers require backtracking when stitching, but they are so pretty it is worth the extra effort. My Feather FUNdamentals class included three kinds of feathers and I decided to use formal feathers for this quilt. For the center I chose a circle of feathers and framed the design with a gently curved feather border. It was my husband’s idea because we are in our fourth decade of marriage.įour hearts were a must and I added plumes in the corners. The HMQS theme for 2013 was “That’s Amoré” (That’s Love) so keeping with the theme, I named my quilt “Quatro Décennie,” which means “four decades” in French. Since I was teaching quilting feathers and fills, I decided to use my BERNINA 820 and make a new wholecloth design featuring those techniques. The show requested at least one quilt for the teacher display area. My “Quatro Décennie” project began with an invitation to teach domestic machine quilting at HMQS (Home Machine Quilting Show). Renae Allen makes it look so easy! Here she is to show us a bit about the design and quilting of Quatro Décennie, a beautiful wholecloth quilt embellished with intricate hearts, feathers, and fills. Do I have the courage to make one? Not quite yet, but maybe something smaller, like a pillow, if I practice and practice my free-motion quilting.
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