Tickle Feather

My disappearing 9 patch variation has a name, thanks to the quilting I chose: Tickle Feather :)

I decided that all that white space around the quilt was primer property for some feather quilting practice.


I don't like marking patterns very much, so I just outlined a wavy line that was mirrored on both sides of the quilt and free-hand quilted the feathery loops. It's quite obvious it was done free-hand, but hey, it's a cuddly baby quilt and not a show quilt!

In the narrow strips, I quilted a doubly-looped vine, there wasn't that much space for anything bigger.


I also quilted-in-the-ditch around the large squares in the D9Ps - at least turning a baby quilt around and around is manageable!


Here's the quilt before washing:

And after (note that this is the crinkliest of all the pictures I have - lighting makes a big difference...)


All the pink chalk markings came right out of the white (PHEW!!).

One more project checked off on the QUIPs list!

Something Slightly Different

... using slightly different colours and prints than I normally do.

... using a previously-tried pattern in a different way.

I sewed most squares of a Moda ZippityDooDah charm pack into 9-patches...

... and turned them into disappearing 9-patches (D9P).


Played around with the layout a bit, but didn't quite like the traditional layout (though it looks better on the photo than in real life).


I ended up sewing them into columns and adding some sashing.


The result is simple - and I like it :)