Non Unus Pluma
Approximately 55" square
This quilt is a pattern by Judy Neimeyer that is no longer in print. I originally bought the patter to try out her patterns before I jumped into a big one. After working with it I don't think anyone writes a more precise pattern with more detailed instructions.
This quilt is a pattern by Judy Neimeyer that is no longer in print. I originally bought the patter to try out her patterns before I jumped into a big one. After working with it I don't think anyone writes a more precise pattern with more detailed instructions.
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I made this quilt from only 3 hand dyed fabrics. On the back I have part of the Warkton Lane Gradient that was used for all of the background and many of the spikes. I dyed a coordinating orange and pale mottled fabric for the sashing and other spike elements.
This quilt has been a long time in the making. It was pieced over 2 years ago. When I bought my Innova in 2014 this was one of the first quilts I started quilting. I stitched in the ditch the whole thing and did this quilting in the pale spikes and the quilting in the orange spikes. Then I hit an idea wall and took it off the machine for over a year.
When I put it back on the machine a couple of months ago I still didn't have a good plan. I kept trying to plan some places to add feathers but couldn't come up with anything that I liked a lot.
One of the design elements that bugged me in this quilt was this kite shape in the corner. It wasn't repeated anywhere so the first thing I did was add several kits in the quilting. They are all cross-hatched. By the time I finished the kits I had given up on adding feathers. Onve I let go of the feathers the rest of the quilting moved along quickly.
One of the design elements that bugged me in this quilt was this kite shape in the corner. It wasn't repeated anywhere so the first thing I did was add several kits in the quilting. They are all cross-hatched. By the time I finished the kits I had given up on adding feathers. Onve I let go of the feathers the rest of the quilting moved along quickly.
Here's another kite shape hiding in the quilting. In both of those photos you can see how I highlighted the curved corners with swirled pebbles in lighter value thread.
Here's a close up of the quilting in the center of the quilt. I use Crayola Washable Markers to mark my quilting lines. They wash right out when I wash the quilt for blocking.
I finished it off with a piped binding. This was the first time I've done a piped binding. It absolutely adds time but it's not particularly difficult to do and well worth the effect.
This quilt was made specifically to hang here on our bedroom wall. I like it against the orange wall.
