MoanaWahine

I tend to agree with you. Of course it does not hurt that I do not like feathers. I just have been seeing a lot of them lately and most often they are taking away from the quilt.

Sadiemae

Then you could ask the question--"Is stippling overdone?" and you could ask "Is SID overdone?" and you could answer "YES" to both. So to answer your answer your qustion--"Whatever floats your boat! Do what makes you happy!"

Cybrarian

Some of the really dense and imaginative quilting, especially what seems to be competition bound is really amazing. However, I can't imagine it on anything but some type of art piece. Do you think some are going for that look? I think sometimes we can get too caught up in the latest "trends"--wanting to be on the "cutting edge" and all that. Too much of a good thing looks exactly like what it is, too much!

amandasgramma

Ditto!!! Feathers have their place and they're VERY fast to quilt, but I like to look at the quilt and let it speak to me. :)

Polliwog

Traditional hand quilted feathers are soft and flexible in comparison with machine quilted feathers. There are so many designs for machine quilting - feathers are only one.

butterflywing

i like feathers a lot. and i agree that i would like to see more open areas of piecework and not see the quilting overwhelm the piecing. but here's another thing: i would like to see another kind of design. it seems that i see the same designs all the time. bubbles, bananas, vines, cables, meanders, feathers, curls, etc.

when i check out the leah day website, i see hundreds of other interesting patterns for quilting, but i hardly ever see them being used on an actual quilt. feathers will always be the favorite if feathers is all anyone sees.

marymm

I love feathers. I doubt they could be overdone--for me. However, I like the looser feathers on a bed quilt and the heavier work on a wall quilt. And I'm really happy to see a quilter throw in some dragonflies! I think that it's like all things beautiful -- or ugly. It's in the eye of the beholder.

Granny Quilter

I agree, when it is too dense, you cant tell what the quilt looked like.

Sadiemae

I cannot even imagine the time that would be involved in using Leah Day's patterns on a bedsize quilt. And it would be very densely quilted.

shortstuff

I like feathers but not a lot of them. They are nice on the borders and in large background areas. To much quilting makes a quilt hard