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The Flying Geese are arrange in a gradating color order. Lightest to darkest from bottom to top. Fussy cutting is picking a special color or character of the print in your fabrics to enhance your block. Want a blue bird instead? Feel free to experiment and audition different color options for the details in your quilt. Choosing the fabrics and fussy cutting the details is my favorite part of quilting!

Those tiny details make a world of difference to me. It gives the pieces an nice outlined look. Who designed such tiny pieces anyway!? My bad. But they are so cute. Test and practice your blanket stitch before sewing on your block. A few ladies in my class are stitching by hand and WOW are they skilled.

So whichever your method, enjoy the process. If you need an up close look at the block to see which fabrics to use, visit this link. If you doubled up on the Flying Geese and Pinwheel from last month, all you need to do is the paper piecing! I really enjoy this technique. My blocks come out perfect in size. Start with the Bird House. It is the easier of the two units. Use your favorite paper piecing or foundation method to construct. I have a tutorial if you need a refresher or are just learning.

Go to my blog for November After mastering the Bird House, make the Yellow Finch. A long time ago, I saw a photo on the internet of a nest in an old boot. The image just delighted me and when I was drawing, I recalled the idea and drew up a boot for Mr.

Quail to have their babies. A glass of wine might help wink. I thought she was brilliant. Adapting a pattern to suite your desires and skill level is a great talent. Pay special attention to how the print can accentuate the roundness of the birds or to create a wing. A close look at the block, visit this link. What are the numbers for? When you lay out your pieces, start with 1, then 2 and so on.

The pieces are numbered in how they over lap each other. We enjoy the Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 double sided fusible product. I think I mentioned this before. It is easy to draw on the yellow grid side use a fine tip permanent marker instead of a pencil. The pencil will smear and get on your hands and fabric , easy to peel drag a pin across the paper to tear and then peel away from the middle toward the edges and it sticks to your fabric before fusing.

Since it is sticky, re-positioning the pieces is easy. Once arranged perfectly, press with a steamy, hot iron. Use an iron sheet to protect your iron from the fusible product, then press again from the back. Add a small blanket or zig-zag stitch to anchor it in coordinating threads. Your background fabric cutting instructions is oversized.

Great work!! Another product my class is enjoying is the portable light pads by Huion. These are awesome! There are three types. I have the smallest because I take mine back and forth to class all the time, but they also have a battery operated one and a larger size light tablet too. Have fun! Ladies Art Company was established in Magazines ads in mentioned quilt blocks to choose from and a catalog was published in listing different blocks.

The rest is history! Ladies Art Co. While their patterns predate the Kansas City Star patterns and others published in newspapers and books, a large majority of blocks were published in the s through the s. Being the Queen of Fussy Cutting, I wanted a gradated look for the eggs.

I used my lightest blue in the center with the darkest eggs on the outside. This will allow you to switch to a portal-specific protocol if desired. It will be considered not public in the eBird database since we cannot approve bird records without accurate location information. Although we understand that some checklists need to be excluded from eBird's public output due to privacy concerns or other issues, we strongly recommend against this unless absolutely necessary.

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