Six More Green Birds

 I made six more birds on Sunday.

 

This is a revised bird...

This was the original. I felt the wing was weak and didn't look very solid.

This is another revised bird, facing in a different direction.

The orange beak was wrong.

I needed a green bird with a light background so I made this one.

Another revised bird. By this time I'm figuring out that I need birds with particular backgrounds - light - medium - dark or busy or plain.

There was nothing wrong with this guy, but I felt he was too dark.

This is a rebuilt bird. Meaning I kept the wing and. breast and body and replaced everything else.

All the revised birds had the same background fabric throughout. This one had more different fabrics than most and I felt it looked a little disjointed.

I needed a yellow bird with a medium green background so I made this one. I love the wing fabric and thought the juvenile jungle print was a perfect pairing. I even tried to fit a fussy cut monkey in the head triangle. I don't remember when or why I bought these yellows, but I am glad I did.

I've been arranging and rearranging the birds on the design wall and this is very close to "IT." I plan to revise the birds at the very top upper left and right, and I need to fill in the empty space.

This is tricky. Not only do I have to balance the left and right facing birds, but their color and the color of their backgrounds. I am pretty sure I know what I am going to do in the empty spaces, but I won't really know until I start putting these together.

And just so you know, a rule I have about assembling bird blocks into quilts is that I won't cut a bird apart, but I might trim legs, or the block above the head, or space on either side. I don't have any trouble using a set-in square wherever I need to.

If you want to make birds, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop.