99% done...

 

When I designed the top half of the quilt I think will be called Spring Chatter (thank you Elle), I knew I didn't want the birds stacked up neatly one on top of the other. I wanted some taller and some shorter. And I knew I wanted them spread out a bit.

With WOW (White on White) fabrics this would have been a lot easier. I could not introduce any green fabric that was not already in the quilt, and I had to spread them around and still not make any area too light or too dark.

Working on the floor was both easier and harder. Easier because I could reach it, harder because I could not see the whole thing.

When I started sewing it together I knew how to do the bottom part, but had no clue how I would approach the top. The only way forward is through, so I just started at one side and worked my way over. 

Originally there could have been five or six set in squares, but in the end there were only three. 

This was a rather large one, so I made sure to fussy cut it so it did not have any strong pattern in it.

Here is the top part almost sewn together. It needed to be sewn to the row underneath it, and then to the bottom part.

I still have to trim it a bit and make sure there is enough fabric all around so no bird loses his or her tail feathers in the binding, but this is it. My first thought after I put it up and went across the room to look at is was that I should have spread more different fabrics around on the bottom. But I think I will leave it as is (because I'm not going back) and because I kind of like it. It's as if the birds are in a tree and you can see more sky around them toward the top. That's my story and I am sticking with it.

Although the QUILT looks OK, the photos look darker and the quilt really isn't that dark, so I took it outside.

Yup. Works for me.