I love these birds!   These are the birds I am keeping. This will be a wall hanging, or if I win, a much bigger quilt....

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I made these 2 & had an AWFUL time getting a picture of just them, w/out my lovely assistant. He is very good about not stepping on blocks or bumping them, etc. but the minute he sees a camera he plonks his big cranium in the middle of the shot!  Finally, I just gave...

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Someone who saw the scraps leftover from this block, which I shared a week ago as an example of this month’s fabric guidelines, that it looks like Halloween. Now I look at this first bird block of mine and I see … candy corn. Besides my candy corn bird, I made 6 more, mostly right-facing birds, in a variety of colors and heights.   After I put them up on my design wall, I notice that a few of  them seem to be posing, a la Angelina...

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In April, we’re making bright bird blocks with soft blue backgrounds and black (or black and white) beaks and legs.  Nann made this one. Download the print-friendly directions here: Bird Block Pattern For those who received the sneak peek, the block directions have been updated with a correction in the cutting directions (thanks to those who caught them for me), more detail about how to sew the leg section together and, of course, more...

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