"Birds in the Air"
 

I'm thinking about making a scrappy "Birds in the Air" quilt, inspired
by a photo of one made around 1870. The blocks will be 6" or 9" and
the background fabric unbleached muslin.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen a different set for this block than
just rows of blocks in the same orientation. Since it's basically an
HST, there should be a lot of possibilities, but I'm having trouble
imagining which would be interesting and which would look disorganized
and a pain in the eyes. So I'm asking the group for opinions on what
would and wouldn't work. I'd be quite willing to include other blocks
or interior borders or other patterns.

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I'm thinking about making a scrappy "Birds in the Air" quilt, inspired
by a photo of one made around 1870. The blocks will be 6" or 9" and
the background fabric unbleached muslin.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen a different set for this block than
just rows of blocks in the same orientation. Since it's basically an
HST, there should be a lot of possibilities, but I'm having trouble
imagining which would be interesting and which would look disorganized
and a pain in the eyes. So I'm asking the group for opinions on what
would and wouldn't work. I'd be quite willing to include other blocks
or interior borders or other patterns.

You can do any of the zillion layouts for log cabin blocks with the
birds in the air pattern. Barn raising, sunshine and shadow, furrows
etc.

I found this cool zig zaggy pattern:
http://blockcentral.com/birdsintheair.shtml


marcella

In article ,
wrote:

I'm thinking about making a scrappy "Birds in the Air" quilt, inspired
by a photo of one made around 1870. The blocks will be 6" or 9" and
the background fabric unbleached muslin.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen a different set for this block than
just rows of blocks in the same orientation. Since it's basically an
HST, there should be a lot of possibilities, but I'm having trouble
imagining which would be interesting and which would look disorganized
and a pain in the eyes. So I'm asking the group for opinions on what
would and wouldn't work. I'd be quite willing to include other blocks
or interior borders or other patterns.


Why don't you simply make up several practice blocks and play with
different settings to see what you like? Or, if you have any quilting
software, you could play with the settings in that instead of making
actual blocks. :)
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AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

http://members.shaw.ca/quiltneighbour/birds.htm
The pattern for a 6" Birds in the Air block is available as part of the
Sampler of Psalms series [block 2]:
http://members.shaw.ca/kigraham/partners.html


--
Kim Graham
http://members.shaw.ca/kigraham
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
THE WORD IN PATCHWORK

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I'm thinking about making a scrappy "Birds in the Air" quilt, inspired
by a photo of one made around 1870. The blocks will be 6" or 9" and
the background fabric unbleached muslin.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen a different set for this block than
just rows of blocks in the same orientation. Since it's basically an
HST, there should be a lot of possibilities, but I'm having trouble
imagining which would be interesting and which would look disorganized
and a pain in the eyes. So I'm asking the group for opinions on what
would and wouldn't work. I'd be quite willing to include other blocks
or interior borders or other patterns.

KI Graham wrote:
http://members.shaw.ca/quiltneighbour/birds.htm
The pattern for a 6" Birds in the Air block is available as part of the
Sampler of Psalms series [block 2]:
http://members.shaw.ca/kigraham/partners.html



ohh I like number 5 and... number 7. The effects I think would be
different with totally scrappy, but would still look really cool

Roberta (in VA)

In article 4Wy0f.81020$oW2.1686@pd7tw1no, KI Graham wrote:
http://members.shaw.ca/quiltneighbour/birds.htm

Thanks for these interesting and creative settings, and for the comments
from other posters. I can see there's a lot of potential here!