Celtic triskelion wall hanging quilted in gold on deep blue

Oct 18, 2026 Last reply: 2 hours ago 3 Replies
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The toughest stretch here seems to me to be the dense free-motion fill in the negative space around the spirals, and Homesteading Seamstress handled it in a smart order. Concentric guide circles and the large spiral curves went in first, stitched in yellow thread with the longarm foot running along a clear curved acrylic ruler. The wave-like fill then went in around those stitched lines.



The panel itself is a square wall hanging: mottled deep-blue fabric layered with batting on a quilting frame, worked in metallic gold or yellow thread.



What stands out to me is the contrast in texture. One spiral arm and the background around the circular motif carry a dense micro-stippled, wavy fill, while other spiral sections get simple outlines that follow the swirl. Echo patterns also run across different segments of the panel, and that mix keeps the design from feeling uniform.



Once the quilting was done, loose threads were trimmed and the edges received binding before the piece was mounted on a wall. The one open question is thread consumption: the maker could only offer a best guess of about a fifth of a 2,500-yard spool, and the exact amount used remains unknown.



Project by Homesteading Seamstress . Watch it on their YouTube channel:

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Mixing dense fill on one arm with plain outlines on the others seems like a clever call to me. Treating all three arms the same way would flatten the design, and the contrast gives each section its own weight. The trade-off, in my view, is that the heavily filled arm pulls the eye first, so the triple spiral reads slightly unevenly.

I would love to know how the wave fill was kept consistent across such big open areas. Was it stitched in one continuous pass on the longarm, or did the maker break it into sections between the guide circles? Judging even spacing at that scale by eye alone seems really hard to me.

A variation worth trying: leaving the background fill slightly sparser so the mottling in the deep-blue fabric shows through. The dense wavy texture is lovely, but a little breathing room around the spirals might make the gold lines pop even more against the darker cloth.

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