I don’t often do custom work on a baby quilt, but this one called for something special and I wanted to make those white triangles pop so I opted for some straight lines in the printed areas and, of course, feathers for the white! I LOVE white on white. I love stitching it out and watching it develop and I love looking at it when it’s done. It’s so fresh and crisp 🙂
I used a ruler for the straight lines, just eyeballing the pivot point and using a line on the ruler for consistent spacing, and added a little swirl to the top of the feathered triangles – an idea I got from Sharon at Love Shack Quilts. It’s such a simple element to add but gives just a bit more pizzaz than just taking the feathers all the way, and I really like it! There’s a quick video further down showing you a couple of blocks being stitched out.
I have to say this quilt was made much easier by me new HST tools: Clearly Perfect Slotted Trimmers from New Leaf Designs. I think I might be starting to be OK with half square triangles in a kind of tolerate-them-without-cursing-sort-of-way …
Ann Walsh Quilting 