I'm back with some names of books and websites for those of you wanting more information on quilting feathers. Lee Cleland's book "Feathers that Fly" (martingale-pub.com)shows how to design, mark, and machine quilt feathers. Linda Mae Diny's book "Circular Quilting" gives very good advice on using circles to make your feather spines along with pumpkin seed, rope, stained glass, clamshells and continuous curves quilting. Then a favorite of mine by Jodi Robinson is "LessStressFeathers"(PictureTrail.com/jrdesigns)
Nichole Webb has a great book "Floribun da: An Explosion of Ideas for Free-style Machine Quilters".
Classes are wonderful and money well spent; however I find that I do better with books and DVD's that I can read or view over and over at my own pace. And nothing works for me without practice, practice, practice.