Free Motion Quilting Serendipity Star

I had a rare Saturday off from work today. However, my husband was scheduled to work so I ended up having the day to myself! I thought I should start quilting the Serendipity Star Table Topper which I made a while back. I spent most of the morning trying to figure out what pattern I should quilt. I have a bunch of books that I look through. I usually take one idea from one book and combine it with an idea from a different book. That's how I came up with the motif for this diamond shape. I outlined the diamond and then used a ruler to make the straight lines within the block. I used that middle seam to be my stem for my feather. I think it worked!

Equilateral triangles are found on both sides of the diamond shape. I found lots of triangles with quilting but none were equilateral. I liked the idea of these parallel lines on each side of the triangle. I decided to make a tight meander in the remaining space. 

I was going to try something different in the middle but the fabric was so busy that you just can't really see the quilting very much. I thought meandering was the was best choice.  

That was my Saturday! I got half of the table runner quilted. I also started to sew down the binding on the Double Wedding Ring quilt. I started reading a new book too! I had a pretty nice day off!