Feathered Nests

I finally got my quilt back from Stitch, and I'm excited to show you a few more shots of it.  Thanks to my husband for holding up the quilt on a very chilly, windy day. You can download the quilt pattern now as a pdf.  Click the photo below for an affiliate link to the pattern.

My quilt was in the Feather Your Nest section of the magazine.  I chose Valorie Wells' Nest fabrics, along with some coordinates.  See Aunt June's feather fabric there on the right in lime?  Perfect! I used a big panel of the feature fabric on the back of the quilt.

Angela Walters brought out the theme brilliantly in the quilting.  Can you see she quilted a few of the shoo fly blocks as nests, complete with eggs in the center?  The other blocks are done with beautiful feathered shapes and pebble quilting. 

You can see it more clearly on the back.  Angela's quilting took this quilt to a completely different level.  Thank you, Angela!

You can read more about  this quilt and the block I designed for it here, here, and here.

A First

Today I get to share a big first for me - my first quilt pattern published in a print magazine.  My quilt appears in Stitch, Spring 2012.  It is very cool to see it in print, as I haven't seen it since I mailed it away in August.  When I get the quilt back, I'll take lots of photos to show you the incredible quilting Angela did on it.  I'm sorry to see that the magazine seems to have overlooked giving her credit as the quilter, but anyone who sees this quilt will know someone amazing worked on it.  More pics to illustrate that soon.

You may remember this shoo fly quilt design from my shoo fly blocks using Good Folks fabric.   This one is in my WIP pile awaiting my attention. 

Now that you've seen it in two different color ways, I hope you're thinking of how it might look in your own fabrics.  This modified shoo fly block uses stitch and flip corners to reduce the number of pieces and seams in each block.  If you choose, you can create HSTs from the trimmed corners and make a baby quilt with them, like I did.  This block is oversize, so it's great for fat quarters and larger scale prints.  The quilt finishes at 60 x 90.  I'd love to see what you make from the pattern.

Update: This pattern is now available as an individual pattern download, and it's on sale!