Mi was asked to share more details on how I long arm quilted my strippie quilt.

I used two templates and a straight edge. This curved ruler from HandiQuilter was used for the feather spines.

This circle template was used for the pumpkin seeds.

This is how I did the feathers. I used the wave temp,ate and went left to right to create the spine (blue line). When I got to the end, I freehand quilted the feathers on top (green line). I just use simple feathers, backtracking on each one. When I get back to the left hand side, I use a straight edge and stitch in the ditch between strips (yellow). Then I travel down to quilt the feathers on the bottom. I don’t have to break my thread at all this way.

For the pieced rows, I start with the pumpkin seed. Follow the red line from left to right, then return on the black line to finish the motifs in the squares. Then I freehand the continuous curves in blue. In the picture I’ve drawn the bottom curves first, then come back across the top. The last part are the freehand loops shown in green.

By working back and forth like this, I didn’t need to break my thread.

I hope this was helpful. Have a great day!