Totally Tilda!

Circles in My Mind

This beautiful Tilda designed top has been speaking to me ever since I picked it up from Meryl last week. Needless to say, she had pieced it perfectly and everything laid flat and square.

The sample in the book had a fairly basic all over stipple quilting, but I knew it deserved more than that. I spent quite a while stabilizing the whole piece with some ruler work around the blocks, and put some curls and curves into the 16 patches.

The stems and leaves were asking for formal feathers to climb all the way up.





Then I started to fill in the rest of the background.





 I have been studying the work of some quilters I admire and felt I needed to work on my freehand circles. So I covered the open spaces with a loose loopy meander, but slowed my pace right down so I had more control. It definitely worked better.











I left the birds until last because I wasn't sure what they needed. In the end I gave them very simple features.

Sweet!

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