If you’re interested in feather quilting, you won’t want to miss this one! Anita Shackelford takes you on a feather odyssey in Infinite Feathers: Quilt Designs, and introduces you to her indispensable companion tool, the Infinite Feathers Quilting Design Template. Feather quilting seems to be the hallmark of really intricate and detailed heirloom quilts, and it can be rather intimidating to consider quilting feathers whether by hand or machine, not to mention drawing your own feather designs. Anita makes it an easy, step-by-step

process with her detailed instructions and creative ideas for using the Feather Template to draw your own designs to fit any space on your quilt. There are also lots of ready to use designs included in the back of the book. I’ve used Anita’s designs, methods and template on three of my large quilts, FeatherGlow, Material Marquetry and Stars In My Hand, as well as other smaller projects.

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What’s new? The Podcast is new! Yes, I’ve entered the world of podcasting. What’s a podcast, you ask? Click here for the low down (and the hi-tech version, too!). I’m hosting a bi-weekly podcast full of ideas, inspiration, tips and news from the quilt world. Head on over to Driven To Quilt to listen to the promo episode and find out how to get the podcast on an mp3 player near you!

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After a 13+ hour marathon troubleshooting session yesterday, I’m happy to report that the comments feature for the weblog is fully functional now! Again, many apologies if you’ve ever tried to comment and couldn’t. A few tips:

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