Free Motion Friday - Finishing Peacock

Today I'm sharing with you the finish of my quilt Peacock.  The large center circle in the middle needed some quilting.  I simply followed the print of the batik.

For the outer edges I chose to do some collage quilting.  I used a crying clamshell, a swirl, and a twirly circle over and over again to create texture.

The top is done!  Time to bind...

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

The Start of Peacock

I decided to try appliqueing a circular medallion I designed.  I traced out all the pieces and had a blast picking out the fabrics.  You can see below that I laid my light fabric on my table and you can see the thick black lines right through without any trouble.

Instead of my usual layering I decided to put all the pieces for this quilt on at once since some pieces when over and under others.  

I also decided to do a tiny single (instead of my usual double) using Aurifil 50 weight thread.  It worked wonderfully as always and since it was single blanket stitch I was able to get all the stitching done in an evening!

Can you guess from the picture above why my son insisted this quilt is called Peacock?  We had quite a chuckle over it.

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy