I had this top completed about 2 years before I finally quilted it in 2012. This is the 3rd quilt in my scrap blocks “series”. I made stacks and stacks of these crumb blocks several years ago. I put all the bright scraps together and made Mardi Gras in 2006. With the blue and brown scraps I made Zig Zag last year. The greens were used in 2 veterans/QOV quilts shown on the 2012 Quilts page. Anyway, back to On Point. It’s named that for 2 reasons. Obviously part of is the setting but it also refers to my mission to stay on task and get these tops quilted. See all of the Crumb quilts here.
I decided to quilt in on all-over feathers using Suzanne Earley’s Meandering Magic (which, I believe, are out of print). I didn’t want to do the same feather for 5 miles so instead I did lots of different feathers. Some are from Suzanne’s book, some from other places and some completely made up.
I stitched each feather for about 18″ and the alternated the feather designs with traditional hump and bump feathers.
We use this one as our winter bed quilt.
