Which once again shows it's all about the talent of the quilter, not the machine.
I LOVE the way you made the feathers fill up all the space in their respective sections (and I'm usually not a big fan of them), and the dense quilting in the basket blocks.....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!!!!
Spectacular work...Best of luck in the show!
You are entirely too kind with your praise. But I absolutely agree that a person can achieve wonderful results on a domestic machine. A long arm is not required to quilt well. One area that I'm still not pleased with and feel a long arm would help a lot in is basting and keeping the layers tight. I pin and pin and pin but there is some shifting, like it or not, while moving the quilt all around through a domestic machine. I love how a quilt can be loaded and clipped so firmly on a long arm frame, but that alone is just not enough to sell me on the purchase of a very expensive and limited use item.