“Eagles Soar” , 22 x 32″ is finished! Normally I work on a piece start to finish before starting another, but for some reason this one got set aside, probably because it’s deadline was not until late September! I finished the quilting on Thursday, blocked it and then did the binding on Friday. This will be one of my entries for “Inspirations” this year.

I’ve said it before, quilting skies is hard for me. I think it is because I have a tendency to quilt heavily which seems counter intuitive, skies being so airy and light, it’s hard to keep that look with heavy quilting.

For his piece, I decided to give a nod to traditional quilting patterns by using a lot of feather designs to compliment the unusual sky treatment. I used two different varigated threads in the sky, a darker one in shades of blue and a lighter one that had a lot of yellow with some pink and blue. I am happy with how it turned out!

For some time I have wanted to participate in NinaMarie’s “Off The Wall Friday” and today is the day for me to give it a try. Clicking on the above link should take to a page where you can see LOTS of wonderful works! Enjoy!!

Yesterday I finished the quilting on the eagles and now I need to start the sky; skies are my least favorite thing to machine quilt! So I put it off for tomorrow. Today..

Usually I don’t do puzzles in the summertime, but this year August was pretty much an unusual month and we have done several! This one was different! A sunflower in the shape of a sunflower so that it needed to be worked from the center out.

There are a few “shapes” in the pieces that really helped, but still, this was a hard one. Currently working one of buttons, all shapes and colors which makes it easier than it sounds.

Yesterday when I posted, I scrolled back to see when I had finished the Eagle top, and discovered that I never had posted it!  So here it is:

You can see the original photo “Eagle Soars”, by Tammy Patterson. I did a mirror image as well as using the original orientation just to add complexity to the layout. I worked on it for awhile yesterday and hope to do some more quilting today.

The Topeka Public Library has posted very nice photos of the Material Conversations exhibit. If you cannot make it to the actual exhibit this is the next best thing!