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Love Birds Quilt

What should you do when your niece is getting married?

Make the new couple a quilt of course!

Love birds quilt block for birders

The happy couple are avid birders, so I designed a block especially for them- named Love Birds.

Of course I had to arrange the blocks in a heart! I like to think that it looks like you’re looking up into the sky for birds and see them flying in formation.

The fabrics are special

I created the entire quilt, including the backing, with fabrics from my late mother’s stash. This way my niece can have a little bit of her grandmother with her.

The quilting

This was the first big quilt I quilted on my new longarm. I did it all freehand. It’s definitely not up to the quality of quilting that I did back when I quilted for customers back in 2008, but I’m happy with my progress at not stressing. It won’t fall apart! I always intend for my larger quilts to be used, not just gazed at.

I am so happy to have a longarm again – it means I can make larger quilts with joy, not stress.

I even sewed the binding onto the front with the longarm, a first for me.

It’s a very snuggly quilt!

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