The DWR is quilted

The stop watch says a little over 27 hours to quilt  I did forget to turn it on a couple of times.  I used 21 class M bobbins with very fine Glide thread.    The greatest amount of time was the procrastinating before  putting it on the machine to quilt.

My goals in quilting:  I wanted the quilting on the rings to show that they intertwined and I wanted the birds to puff.  

To that end, I thought maybe feathered rings, one clockwise and the next, counterclockwise would do it.  But yes it was a challenge to keep clockwise and counterclockwise straight especially on the ends of the quilt on the partial rings.  I chalked C and CO in the blocks to help me.   The first row took 5 hours to quilt setting up the pattern of the rings.   I understand now why the DWR's that I see don't even quilt the rings letting them puff or do a simple non intertwining pattern.  The bulk in the seams can be a problem.  I was very careful when ironing my seams to spread out the bulk as much as possible.                                                  

McTavishing would make the background flat to puff the birds.  But I have been doing that for about 8 years so I included feathers and spirals in the McTavishing to give it my own signature.  

The quilt top was a challenge to piece, my first curved pieced quilt.  I did a tablerunner to try it to see if I could even piece this top.  Then it was used to test the quilting.  Now  I have to learn to bind that irregular outside edge.  The tablerunner will be the trial for that too. 

 The color on the photo below is a little more true.