It's a Finish! Birds in the Air

Birds in the Air

71 x 71

Hand quilted with perle #8 and #12

 I started this back in 2014. I had won some hand dyed scraps from Vicki Welsh. 

 Around that same time I had picked up a copy of McCall's Quilting Vintage Quilts and saw a pattern for this Birds in the Air variation inspired by vintage blue and white quilt. 

 I had a couple of different dark blue Kona fabrics in my stash and thought they would be a great background for those hand dyes 

 I sorted the scraps by color to determine how many scraps I had in each color which then determined the layout and how many blocks of each color I needed.   I finished the top in November 2017. 

I used perle #12 in a variety of different colors to stitch inside the colored triangles. In the dark blue spaces between I used perle #12. In most dark blue spaces I quilted concentric triangles. 

And here's the back. 

It's a weird size but makes a good couch or recliner quilt.

It's usually pretty cold in this drafty old house. 

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework 


This was my goal #2
for
Q1 Finish-Along