November/December Adventures in Quilting and Sewing: Part Two

After I finished my sister's quilt, I moved on to that table cloth ... you know, the one that I made the mitered border video for? After we got home from our trip to Colorado for Thanksgiving I got to work quilting it. Here are some of the work in progress photos... I'll show more from the back than the front as you can see better. I ended up not using batting but just flannel on the back, because I wanted it to drape well on the table. But now that I've worked so hard quilting it, I'm not sure about that decision. Batting would make the quilting stand out more. 

I did swirls all over the center and then for the peacock feather borders, I decided I wanted to do feathers. Of course, I didn't know HOW to do feathers, so I looked it up and found instructions somewhere on the internet... I'm sorry I can't find the original link, but there are a lot of tutorials out there. Here's my practice piece. Oy. Vey.

And here, I got brave and put it on the quilt... I echoed around the feathers and then put swirls next door... to the left.

And on the floral inner borders... flowers. 

As of right now, I've got one more inner border left, then I have 4 outer borders. Quilting takes a long time, but it's SO worth it. 

I thought I'd add, since I know some will ask... I quilt on a Juki tl2010Q ... It's a straight stitch/quilting machine and I LOVE it!

And the fabric, of course, is Splendor 1920.