Hot Birds!

 

I have had a lot going on at the home front, so I've been a bit distracted. This is a bird I made to add to the student bird quilt. There was a lot of blue and I needed a lighter colored bird, so I made this one.

This is a small bird I made to fit in a smallish spot, but it didn't really work. Although this bird looks normal sized, he is actually about 3/4 the size of the average bird. One customer wrote to me once to tell me about a baby quilt she made with my birds. She made them all small, gave them big breasts (bodies), small beaks and she gave them short legs. I tried to follow that formula for this bird. I always (like pretty much everybody who makes birds) make the bird legs long so I can trim them when I fit the bird in the quilt. I like this guy, but he hasn't found a home yet.

If you want to make birds, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop. It isn't paper pieced and there are a lot of things you can do to make the birds unique. Fair warning though, they can be very addictive. 

One customer wrote to me and said she bought the tute so she could make a bird quilt for her sister. Once she got the tute, she decided to make a bird to try it out. The next thing she knew, she wrote, she had made 35.

Yup!