It is always an honor to be asked to quilt another's quilt top. It shows a measure of trust to invite someone else to quilt the work in which they have invested time and effort not to mention funds, in constructing the top.
The quilt below is a beautiful example of needle turn applique by Shiela, who is also a talented hand quilter.
The quilt is 60" square. It is to be a wall hanging so I used two layers of batting a stabilizing layer covered by 100% wool. The first layer helps the quilt to stay nice and flat and the wool gives lovely definition to the quilting so that the applique stands out better.
It seemed to me that the outside HST blocks needed to be quilted as part of the border to soften the hard edge of the darker border color so those are all quilted with the peacock feather design.
I used a ruler to stitch about a half inch either side of the sashing and outlined all of the applique. The inside circle of the flowers was the only place I actually stitched
on the applique.
Seen a little clearer from the back.
After everything else was done I went back and stippled all around the full blocks
View from the back, you can see better how the quilting went. The sashing is quilted with a "C" design
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