Birds of a feather

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Thanks to a rainy Saturday, I got this one quilted, bound and washed. You may recall that I made this quilt to feature one of my favorite (now out of print) fabrics – these great paint by number birds. They originally came in 4 colors, and thanks to some online friends, I had a bit in three of the four colors. I decided to use all of them in this one quilt – going for improv-style blocks  with one of the birds as the center of each block.

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And as if there weren’t already enough birds in this quilt, I decided to use a few more for the back… just simple blocks here – each bird is framed with one of the fabrics used on the front, and then, because I couldn’t help myself, I had to add in one of the little flowers in the lower corner.

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I used this pink polka dot fabric (MoMo Wonderland) for the binding, with one little section of the green polka dots. Love it!

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And now that this one’s completed, I’m kind of tempted to do something similar with the paint by number deer… overkill? Probably…!

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