Feather Frenzy

I, like a sizeable portion of quilters, have admired Angela Walter's work and thought "one day", in regards to participating in one of her Free Motion Challenges.  If you are someone who has not heard about this, Angela periodically organizes a multi-week event (approximately 8 week period) where she challenges quilters to learn and practice their quilting skills.  She produces a series of YouTube videos with a weekly "how-to" demo video and a weekly live chat check-in.  There is no cost to participate and I am grateful to her for sharing her knowledge and experience so openly.

She does produce an optional fabric and coordinating thread collection, if you want to practice on a whole cloth piece that she has designed for the purpose of the challenge.  This time, I saved up, and I got the panel, matching borders and thread collection.  This time was the "Fabulous Feathers" challenge and feathers terrified me up until now.  Think of this as a new school sampler.  It is something, when finished, that will serve both as a beautiful wall hanging and reference for quilting skills in the future.

Add in the new-to-me long arm and we had quite the challenge ahead.

It has taken me longer than I hoped, buy I'm on week 6 and doing corner feathers.  My feathers sometimes look a toddler with mittens trying to work an etch-a-sketch, but it is slowly improving.  Here's the latest portion of tonight's efforts:

So now, I sit and say, can I do better?  Do I want a Mulligan, a do-over?  Stay tuned to find out if I carry on, or embrace that many times used tool, the almighty seam ripper!  Here's a hint (thanks to the Quilting Marine): it's only fabric and it's only thread!

What about you?  Do you offer want a do-over?