Originally Posted by debcavan (Post 6851979)

I have been trying to learn how to quilt custom making it look great without taking 20-30 hours. I stuck to feathers, pumpkin seeds, fancy pumpkin seeds,quiggles and e's to unify the quilt. My favorite border is the one with the bias strip. I used that as the stem for a feather. I was able to slip though areas to avoid a lot of starts and stops between borders.

This is a quilt top that was given to a quilter after a family found a closet of quilt tops in an Aunt's home. She is not sue if the quilt will be treasured or again thrown into a closet and forgotten.

Did you find the missing motif? That gets corrected tomorrow.

Originally Posted by feline fanatic (Post 6853491)

It looks great. Regarding time consuming custom quilting, I find what takes the most time is doing ditch work. I always prefer the look when there is some SID but sometimes it just isn't in the budget. You did an awesome job bringing this quilt to life with no ditch work. I really like the CC with the little curlyQ in it, especially from the back. It reminds me of Kim Stotsenberg's "heavy metal" technique.