This little lovebirds
quilt is just so sweet. I knew I wanted to stuff the birds so they
would puff up a little. And, I'm sure glad I did.
I cut the rough shape of
each bird from poly batt (all 40 birds!). Then, as I got to each bird
row, I spritzed each poly shape with quilt basting spray and tucked
it in place between the top and the regular batting. The dense
stipple really lays the surrounding area down so the birds are nicely
rounded.
The design for the blue 4
patch blocks just popped into my head. A combination of free motion
and use of a curved template.
I tried something I've
never done before, and that was to use a simple border design,
mirror-imaged to fill the border space. I really like how this turned
out, although it was kind of hard to do. I mean the first pass with
the first border design was easy. But, then when you quilt the
mirror-image, you had to watch the design shape as well as the first
quilting, so that the mirror-image landed in the right place. But,
hah, it worked!
The border has a filigree-look to it from the back.
(Sorry, I had a couple more photos, but they wouldn't load.)
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination."
Roy Goodman
