I made five of these as Christmas gifts for family. I loved how photo realistic the pattern was, and it holds a special remembrance of home for me because I spent a lot of time watching the chickadees at our cabin bird feeder, and even once spent half a day enticing them to eat seed of out my hand.
This pattern is also nice as a Christmas gift because it can basically stay up all winter. The scene was made with ultra-hold fusible web, that is not made to be sewn over.
I really enjoyed assembling the birds. Each was made up of ten different pieces. It was fun to start out with ten odd-looking shapes and have them manifest into such a detailed critter!
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| all three birds fully assembled |
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| All of the fusible web pieces assembled |
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| The assembled quilt top, before quilting and scrollwork was added (by the way, that scrollwork was really painful to cut out) |
After a lot of research, I decided to machine quilt snowflakes into the background. It was tedious but okay for such a small area. I stitched holly leaves around the border.
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| quilting close-up |
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| quilting close-up |
This pattern was fun to make, but five was too many. I'm a little burnt out on quilting for a while!
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