Try Again!

The latest project to make it's way to the quilting machine was my Feathered Star medallion quilt, made as part of the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) in 2021 and 2022. I was hoping to get it finished before our next guild meeting on the 19th.

Unfortunately, my first attempt at quilting did not make me happy. (That photo doesn't make me happy either, but it was the best I could get at the time.) I tried to take the easy way out and follow the diagonal lines on the backing fabric for my quilting design. The entire lower right corner, about 1/4 of the entire quilt, has been quilted that way.

This is the backing fabric for the quilt. As you can see, the diagonal vines are not straight lines but a little wavy. On the front of the quilt, it just looked messy. Also the spacing of the lines didn't relate well to the piecing on the front. I had spent one afternoon getting the quilt layered and that portion quilted. I spent the next afternoon taking all that quilting out.

Yesterday I started some stitch-in-the-ditch quilting around the flying geese border and around the pink triangles that circle the center of the star. I haven't figured out how I will quilt everything else yet, but I'm much happier with the results at this point. I'll keep plugging away and still hope to get it quilted and bound before our meeting.

I'm  linking up with:

Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA