First finish of 2017 and 3rd Feathergirls finish!

Hello everyone,

We as Feathergirls thought we’d start the year as we mean to go on…. with a finish!

You may have been following our progress on our current Feathergirls projects…. our scrapquilts… well, here they are, all finished… !

To the left is my quilt, to the right the quilt of fellow Feathergirl Hubertine, you can find more on her quilt on her blog (click)

The idea for this 3^rd Feathergirl quilt was to make a scrap quilt, when we revealed our plans to eachother (click) it turned out Hubertine decided to make her quilt of one pattern and while I originally started with the same idea I found I could not chose which block or pattern to use so decided to use various patterns and found the best way to do this was to place them in rows.

To honor Feathergirl Hubertine and our co-operation as Feathergirls I added a row of the rails pattern of her scrapquilt in mine as well:

Although I tried to ‘make ends meet’  that did not always work out in the end and with the great Gwen Marston (click) in mind I either cut something off when it was too long:

or I added something when it was too short: 

Hey, this is the Feathergirls... our aim is not to be perfect, our aim is to have fun with it all!

This reminds me of many of the antique quilts I have seen on my travels J !

So, not perfect, but I love this quilt, it is colorful, I had such fun making it and it is mine all mine, I thought it up, row by row, so it is one of a kind.

Quilt stats:

Size: 133 x 175 cm / 52” x 69”
Machine pieced, hand quilted
Fabrics and batting 100% cotton

So, after these finishes what is next for the Feathergirls? With a truck load of wips and ufo’s each we decided to put starting another Feathergirl project on hold for now and to focus on finishing some of those first. But that does not mean you will not hear from us…. no way…  watch this space….

Phyllis

Feathergirls scrap quilt update

Besides being busy with the pyramids (click) I am also still busy with my scrapquilt, the third project Hubertine (click) and I are working on as the Feathergirls.

This is what my efforts look like on my designwall right now.

Having started with no real plan at all, I first made flying geese, a block which I like looking at and also like making. Then I decided to make 9-patches, and why not, 4-patches as well. A block of a totally different size was then called for so I made a row of courthouse steps, a fun block to make and then I decided to just go on making rows in different simple shapes. So this is the result so far and that is now the plan.

I still have a bunch of these 9-patches… should I use them ….

or make more different shapes? Or both?

Phyllis