I can’t tell you how excited I am about my completed Kaffe Fasset peacock quilt. I threw caution to the wind and let Amy, the longarm quilter, make the decision on the quilting pattern and thread color. She did a spectacular job. Here’s the quilt hanging in our dining room. You can see a little of the quilt pattern notably at the bottom left of the quilt.

Here’s a closeup picture of the back of the quilt. She used violet thread throughout the quilt and a pattern I would describe as “a loose flower”. If you zoom in really closely you can see the color of the thread.

I’ve begun work on the Orange Peel quilt, which I call “petal quilt”. The picture below are some test blocks I created. On the left I was messing around with the length & width of the blanket stitch which holds the petal to the 5” background block. It took some practice to stitch along the bottom and top of the petal but muscle memory seems to be firmly in place now and the blocks I’ve recently created look good. Along the edge of the upper right block I messed around with a random quilting pattern. I need to do further testing on this. . .