Quilting the Dancing Quill

 

After basting the infamous Valori Well's Craftsy mystery quilt, I finally started quilting it two nights ago. I thought about the design for a while, and finally decided to try a sort of tear drop feathered paisley design. I thought this would echo the fabrics, and it seems to evoke bird plumage to me, which fits in with the name.

I'm very happy with how it's turning out. As usual with new designs, it took me a little bit to find my groove and commit the design to muscle memory, but I have the hang of it now, and I'm loving how it looks.

This is a little more time consuming than my other free motion designs, and more thread intensive. I've used 16 bobbins worth of thread so far, and I'm guessing I have about three or four more to go. One bobbin lasts me about 30 minutes, so that means i've been sewing this for 8 hours so far with a couple more to go!