Blogger's Quilt Festival: Dyed

I'm entering my second quilt, Dyed, into the Home Machine Quilted category. I really had a blast quilting this one.

The white portion was quilted in a style that I have heard referred to as both "improv quilting" and "graffiti quilting" - basically a mash-up of a ton of different designs.

In an effort to keep the quilted from looking overwhelming, I FMQed some larger portions of it with orange peel quilting.

I wrote more detailed tutorials about this kind of quilting here and here.

In the red portion, I quilted feathers branching upwards. In between the feathers, I matchstick quilted straight lines.

The feathers are super frilly and curly, which balances out the very angular nature of the quilt top.

I named this quilt "Dyed". I had a couple different inspirations that merged together in my imagination to create this design, but one of them - don't laugh too hard! - was the commercial where Conan was in India, hand-dying the fabric for his new show curtains a deep red. This quilt was meant to represent a white fabric being dipped and stained in red, if that makes sense.

And so there you have it. The Dyed quilt.

Linking up to Amy's Creative Side for Blogger's Quilt Festival.