TGIF Bird

 

This is Friday's bird. You all know how I will fussy cut anything to get the look that I want.

This is a scrap from the backing for the Peppermint Swirl quilt I made back in 2017. I wanted a not white backing of the newest bird, and I thought the words would work with a little judicious fussy cutting.

As it happened it needed a LOT of judicious fussy cutting. But if you want something bad enough you'll move mountains to make it happen.

You can get my bird tutorial here if you want to make birds, and trust me, you want to make birds. :-)

Peppermint Swirl in the Snow

OK, maybe not IN the snow, but ON it. You can see the quilting and the backing in this.

On The Table

Here's the Peppermint Swirl quilt on my dining room table. I was pleased as I was designing it to discover how perfectly it fit on the table.

As I've been showing this to friends and coworkers since I finished it, they've all asked where this one is going. "It's staying with me," I say.

"I'd keep it too," most of them have replied.

The idea for this quilt came a little over a year ago when I was talking to my friend Julie and I told her I wanted to make a red and white quilt for my table to use in February, as an homage to Valentine's Day. I didn't have enough reds then, and didn't have any idea of a design. When I don't know where I'm going, I don't just jump in. I set the idea aside to germinate and grow. The idea percolated in the back of my head until August and September, when I finally got fabric and got going.

I remember when I was making it and I just wasn't sure it was working at all. Check out this post, and this one, when I finally got it. I didn't give up, I didn't settle. I just kept pushing. I knew there was a great quilt in there somewhere.

Now it's in great company. Literally!