Several months ago when I put my hand up for the For the Birds bloghop hosted by Joan of moosestashquilting, I had time stretching ahead of me and I thought it pretty much guaranteed that I would have May and June for sewing all sorts of things, and plenty of time to prepare for the bloghop.
Fast forward to last weekend when I was blowing the dust off my machine and rummaging around looking for the project box which held my intended project!!
This is a project I've long wanted to finish. It started when I test sewed some cute wee bird on a wire blocks for Juliet, of Tartankiwi designs several years ago. I had an inspiration for a layout but at the time I didn't get a chance to do any more.
Luckily I had sketched my idea down and luckily it was in the box with the blocks!
As these are 6" blocks, I started by re-sketching with a 6" grid. That got me off to a good start and I started merrily sewing away.
I had a wee brainwave at some stage and thought it would be fun to put some pieced blocks in the background. But tone-on-tone so you would see them up close, but they wouldn't overshadow the wee birds.
This Seminole strip didn't work where I thought it might, but I adapted it for the bottom.
Of course I had very little of the grey to finish the fence post but I hoped I might get away with using my grey scraps to crown the top of the post —
(The rocks and grass along the bottom are the second strip of Seminole I did.)
It still needs a good press and tidyup. This is not a large item - approx 30 x 24 and now that I've got this far, I'm excited to get it properly finished! Watch this space :-)
This is Day Three of the bloghop. The other participants for today are —
And there is a full list of ALL the participants on Joan's blog *here*.
Thank you so much for visiting and reading along.
'til next time,
happy stitches,
Raewyn
It's lovely Raewyn! So glad you dug it out. xx
ReplyDeleteThose birdies are so cute. Love the neutral but pretty blocks too.
ReplyDeleteExcellent paper piecing! The bird are adorable. It is always good to finish blocks made a while ago.
ReplyDeleteThank you Danice - you're so right, it's a good feeling alright!
DeleteYour paper pieced birds are fabulous! I personally don't enjoy paper piecing, but I love to see others create that way.
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed with your piecing! I love the birds and what you did with them.
ReplyDeleteLove those Birds!! Great layout!!
ReplyDeleteThsi is so cute! I can't wait to see it finished, happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you joined us and WOW what a wonderful project you finished. I love the birds and your layout idea is fabulous. Piecing tone on tone blocks for the background would have never crossed my mind, but wow did they pack a punch. Now I want to play around with background blocks. Thanks so much for the inspiration! Congrats on a great UFO finish!
ReplyDeleteI love your birds!!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, those birds are beautiful! I'm so happy you joined in so you'd get those blocks sewn into a quilt project. I love how you incorporated them into the quilt design and the added two-tone blocks was perfect. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThat turned out so cute! I remember those darling birds. I’m so glad you finished it and did it so beautifully. Your design I’d perfect and I love the discreet pieced blocks you added.
ReplyDeleteAwe, so cute and creative.
ReplyDeleteThank you Denise.
DeleteAdorable project, love the birds!
ReplyDeleteOh my--what a pretty quilt--and I know that paper piecing is not a real easy job--especially on little spaces!!! Cute Cute-can you tell I also love birds??
ReplyDeletehugs, diane
Verdaderamente es un proyecto muy bonito. BESICOS.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great layout for your pretty pieced blocks.
ReplyDeletethat looks gorgeous, I love your added pieced blocks too, they add lovely texture
ReplyDeleteYou've accomplished so much with this project and ticked off several boxes! Your sweet birds look like they are enjoying a beautiful day hanging out together. Great work!
ReplyDeleteLooks fantastic and a lot of fiddler work with the foundation piecing.
ReplyDeleteM
These birds look lovely. And I like the layout you have used.
ReplyDeleteI am pleased you found them and brought them into a quilt.
Your little birds are just darling--you've done a beautiful job on them...the colors are super that you've used. Nice work hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteWow! Great use of piecing to really set of this pretty set of bird blocks. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sharon :-)
DeleteI love how you pulled these blocks together for this quilt! Great job. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! So glad you got it finished, so you can enjoy this beauty!
ReplyDeleteThank you Samantha - I enjoyed it!
DeleteThese turned out cute! Love the layout.
ReplyDeleteThank you Leah! It was a fun sew.
DeleteI love your birds and am impressed that you were able to find them after all this time. I have problems finding things from 6 months ago. You have made great progress. It will be a wonderful finished piece. These hops are very, very helpful in motivating us to finish and start projects.
ReplyDeleteThank you - to be honest, it did take me a bit of searching to find them!!!
DeleteIt's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love what you have created with the wee birds. I see many such sights on my walks around the farm (but the birds are different). The tone-on-tone blocks scattered about are a great addition. Excellent job, Raewyn!
ReplyDeleteGreat quilt. I love how you made the background scrappy!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt top Raewyn, love your little birds.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, Raewyn, I LOVE THIS QUILT SEW SEW MUCH! I think your sketched plan is adorable as well with your cute little drawn birdies on a wire. Makes me want to make one.
ReplyDeletePutting the subtle quilt blocks in looks great too!