Originally Posted by charismah

I had to think about how to quilt this quilt for a bit. Sometimes these types of quilts are a challenge for me anyway. I had to think about why?

During the process I had to ask myself: "Do I focus on the eagle?" or "Do I just focus on the element of the blocks?"

Also I think at this stage in the game I think I have recognized many things about my "style" of quilting, right?
I take the pieced design into mind and try to find lines that I can follow. Or I look at the fabric and see if I can pull off any designs in the fabric. Again in this case I did both.

For the border I simply outlined the Eagle heads so they would get some dimension...in the brown areas I loosely added texture..wavy lines, wing type designs...anything to fill them in..no rhyme or reason.
The blocks I did the same design in each block which is the feathery leaf design...it reminded me of an eagle feather so I chose that for sashing as well.

I quilted this freehand on my INNOVA. I used Hobbs polydown batting.

Thanks for looking!