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"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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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. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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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 wrote in message ... 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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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) |
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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! |
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