Recently, the occasion came up to make a project containing blocks with a fussy cut center--the SmallQuiltTalk group Challenge #7. I uploaded a pattern for a little log cabin block for the group to use to make their own little quilt, with their choice of a favorite novelty fabric in the center of the block as a theme. Sounds like fun, huh? So I went to my Novelty Print drawer over the weekend and pulled out some fabric to use. Looking at all of them, I realized that I really do seem to have a penchant for little bird prints but never actually get around to making quilts out of them.
Here's as far as I got in the challenge--a pincushion with a little birdhouse in the center. No time to make a whole quilt. Book projects calling out to be made . . . . Hey, at least it's something, and it took all of 45 minutes to make.
Everybody knows and loves Sue Spargo and all of her projects with folk art birds on them. I was really inspired seeing her booth at Quilt Market last Spring and asked her if I could take a few photos of the projects that had birds on them. How cute are these quilts made from wool and cotton?
Need to find time to get into wool and buy a few of these patterns or kits. She really has quite a few things on her website I am desperate to make.
I forgot about this LITTLE wallhanging I made awhile ago. I guess I do use some tiny bird scraps now and then:
At the Quilters Hall of Fame quilt show last July I spotted an antique blue and white quilt with birds appliqued on the border. How cool is that?
Does this count as a bird on a quilt??
6 comments:
These are such sweet bird projects. Love the birdy border! Wow very creative.
I love quilts with birds on them too!
I am reproducing an antique quilt right now with birds!
Love Sue Spargo quilts too...need to make a few of them with repros though! Still haven't started to collect wool (yet) so they will be in cottons
love your pincushion I will have to hunt down some fabrics with little birds for this idea, great gift idea for my quilting friends this year for Christmas.
Thanks
kathie
Kathie--Now you've got me all curious. I didn't see the bird quilt on your blog--have you posted pictures yet? I need to see it! Antique quilts with birds are my favorite because they're usually so quirky.
I love birds and have many bird figurines as well as birds in artwork in my home. I also have many bird feeders in my yard for those "real" birds. Guess my life is "for the birds!"
I really like birds on quilts too, but I haven't made any. Hmm, I'm going to have to fix that.
I am trying to find a simple quilt pattern with birds to make a baby wall quilt for my new grandchild.
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