Block lotto bird pattern

Birds are just lovely creatures that I adore so much. Most of the time, when I'm drinking coffee early in the morning, I hear them chirping and singing, which makes my day instantly better. So for my next quilt project, I want to incorporate them. I have discovered this beautiful block lotto bird quilt demonstrated

Pictures - Scrappy tweety birdies - A couple weeks ago a friend send me a copy of the pix zozee posted on the QB of 4 of her birds. She told me about blockLotto.com, and the pattern was there, and I also found it on sew preeti's blog. http://sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com/search?q=twitter I used scraps of neutral fabrics

I know I have been MIA. I have no excuses other than real life has taken over with many obligations, most of them good ones! This quilt ...

There's really no magic, no tricks, and no shortcuts to sewing these together. It's a one step at a time, one block at a time, one seam a...

Block Photos from the Sneak Peekers for the April 2013 Block Lotto

Before I show you the next thing I'm working on, I thought I'd answer some questions and comments I've received since I started the birds quilt. First, the scale. Here is my hand next to a typical bird block. These are not small. For my readers outside the US, the ruler above marks the size of the block in centimeters. Here you can see the size in inches. I'll make the bird bigger, if I want to accommodate a particular print. The birds aren't my creation. I don't know where they came from. I…

Well…many, many moons ago, I won a batch of bird blocks in the lotto (April 2013, to be precise). They sat around for a long time waiting for a “special occasion”. I pulled one out last year to use as

It’s all about these fun improv birds this month for members of Bee 7. No don’t worry I’m not expecting you to make numerous birds it’s just I found these so addictive and f…