Princess Feathers

I want to share this beautiful quilt with you. My friend, Nancy Smith, gave me permission to share this quilt. She actually made the top, all hand applique, and I quilted it for her. Nancy specializes in hand applique and hand quilting and has made several of Kim McLean's quilts plus many many more.
One of the things that Nancy does on many is choose her own fabrics and colorways and does a beautiful job. She has made Flower Pots, Lollypop Trees, and the Hearts and Flowers quilt and they are all hand quilted.
I hope you enjoy seeing her work. I'll have to check with her and post some of her other finished quilts.
As I was quilting this I realized just how difficult it must have been to make, yet she did a wonderful job! Many pieces and tiny curves, but worth the effort. I'm sorry but I do not have a picture with a full view of the quilt but thought you'd enjoy the close-ups anyway.

A finished block

I think I satisfied the need to stitch up one of these blocks now. I chose the same fabric as Kim for the center, it was the need to have orange in there, it was all the chatter about orange I think.

This was my first option for the center but I changed my mind.

I better get back to the other quilt now. You may not have realised unless you followed my blog from way back that I have two of Kim's other patterns in various stages. This is where Princess Feathers is up to. I ran out of omph at border two. I also have twelve of the big Lollypop Tree blocks and some smaller ones sitting around somewhere. I'll have to see if I can find some photos.

I'll slink back to my corner now.