A fun & scrappy feather pattern for our next donation quilt.

This is the chance to make use of all those scraps that accumulate and try something a little more complex than our usual 🙂

We’ll use osnaburg, a lightly textured, inexpensive cotton, as a background to unify all our blocks. It is available at West Seattle Fabric Co. in Admiral, as well as many other fabric stores & online.

The feather block is from the Feather Bed free quilt pattern designed by Anna Maria Horner.

She shows one block as having 2 feathers, but we’ll make them as ones and arrange our layout depending on how many feathers we get made 😉

Read Ms. Horner’s blog about her lovely design here.

And download her pattern for free here.

While you’re there, be sure to check out all of her amazing work!

Another blog  OliviaJaneHandcrafted.com, has an interesting tutorial on doing the feathers, lots of clear pictures!

Our next meeting is coming right up on Monday, Jan 26th, 4pm – 8pm

Our next three meeting dates have been set: Sept. 17th (in one week!), Oct 15th and Nov. 19th.

We’re talking about adding some baby sized quilts to our donations for the women who come in with their small children.

Give some thought to ideas for lovely scrappy baby quilts!

Here is some inspiration from a quick Google search:  http://bit.ly/1lW4tSA

At the March meeting, we will be laying out the courthouse steps/Chinese lanterns and sewing the sashing on. So bring any blocks you have for that quilt! 

We will also discuss the upcoming flower quilt and talk about whether we want to offer to hang our quilts in the gardens at the West Seattle Garden tour this year.  You can review the options for the flower quilt design  below.