The Fantail quilt

The quilt that took me 7 years to make...

This is from a design by Jenny Hunter published in NZ Quilter magazine in 2007... it was just shown as one block , but I loved working on it, though I had no idea about piecing or quilting. The reverse appliqué? ..working in the positive and negative was great fun to do...it doesn't bear close inspection. Last year I actually completed the top, but had no idea how to proceed.
Fortunately Charlotte Scott began a short quilting course at Cherry Park House, which I thought would teach me all I needed to know....ha!!
 Don't get me wrong the course was fabulous and Charlotte is a natural teacher; however i realised how little I knew , and how vast and varied this subject is....
 So... I took this to Ed Reid in Russell and he put it on his long arm quilter and quilted it in the lovely Waikato design ; repeating shield/koru ribbons. All I had to do was the binding. This is proudly on our bed, and I love to fall asleep under these colours and wake to them in the morning....