Quilting motif

On the quilting front, I spent most of yesterday making and then stenciling a quilting pattern only my Feathered Star quilt. I hope what I've chosen isn't too busy. I need to get it all traced before Thursday when I'll ask my friends to help me baste it. This will be a hand quilted quilt and already I'm wondering if it will be the last that I ever do! You know... like "how many years is this going to take me?" I know I've said that before and sometimes the quilting goes quickly but what with summer coming up (I'm NOT quilting in the summer months!) and the bazaar quilt which hopefully will get sandwiched on Thursday too, what with this being a good sized quilt and the quilting pattern I chose is NOT a continuous line pattern... this Feathered Star quilt may be my companion for a long time.

When I get a quilt ready for hand quilting I always think, "Well, if I break my leg at least I'll have something to keep my hands busy."

So this is the quilting pattern I decided on. I traced it out of some book on filing plastic and then with my exacto knife I cut it out so that is would be easier to trace/stencil. I get frustrated trying to see a quilt pattern through the fabric (no light box) and I'd rather go to the work of making a stencil for most of my hand quilt patterns.

I put the quilting motif in all the corners of all the stars and in the triangles and also around the border. I did leave some spaces in the border because I thought I was getting too much of a good thing. On today's to do list is to join some batting and sew up the backing!