I've decided to break up the student birds into two quilts. This way the quilts will be able to fit to hang in smaller spaces for display, and it when I teach a class, there will be two quilts in the room instead of just one. Putting disparate blocks together is tricky. It's adding fabrics to one side or another, trimming the blocks so the edges are straight and square, inserting the occasional set-in square and basically winging it. Here is the top third of the quilt in process. Here I have…

Pictures - Scrappy tweety birdies - A couple weeks ago a friend send me a copy of the pix zozee posted on the QB of 4 of her birds. She told me about blockLotto.com, and the pattern was there, and I also found it on sew preeti's blog. http://sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com/search?q=twitter I used scraps of neutral fabrics

Learn to make these cute little watercolor doodle birds in this art how to for beginners. We'll show you step by step, with pictures, how to make your own.

Wonky Improv Birds Quilted Coasters

Organic Line Quilting...aka... wonky 'straight' lines aren't as easy to stitch as they may seem...especially when your machine isn't working...