I’d like to introduce my Birds in the Air quilt!
Many of the birds were created in different parts of the country by my bee mates from That Stash Bee in January of last year. They flew home to North Carolina and sat around my sewing studio for more than a year waiting for a bit of stitching attention.
A couple of months ago, I picked up the blocks and turned them into a top. I had fun deciding on a layout for the quilt. You can read more about that here. In the end, I decided to go with what I am calling an interrupted zigzag layout.
For the quilting, I went with a small paisley design in the background and a back and forth in the triangles. The paisleys give the quilt movement and is the most dense quilting I’ve ever done. Even with all the quilting, the quilt still has a lovely drape. That may be because I prewashed the batting. More on that here.
In my effort to use up my scraps, I went with a scrappy binding made from strips of different lengths. I love the look and think it fits well with the other fabrics in the quilt.
Some quilts bring more of a sense of relief when they are finished than others. This is certainly one of them. These birds have been a long time in the making!
If you are interested in making a quilt with the Birds in the Air block, check out the tutorial that I’ve written. If you do make a quilt or blocks from the tutorial, please feel free to post to the Mama Love Quilts Flickr group. I’d love to see what you stitch up!
If you are looking to practice quilting paisleys, check out this post on machine quilting paisleys.
Linking up with Finish It Up Friday!
34 comments
This is a stunning quilt. I love everything about it from the layout to the quilting to the binding. 🙂
Nicole, I just love everything that you do! Beautiful!!!
I love everything about this quilt. The colors, the triangles, the quilting, and oh, the broken zigzag! Wonderful!
They've flocked beautifully together :o)
Absolutely love it. Great colors and what a wonderful design.
This is just gorgeous! I'm drooling over the quilting!!
Lovely, lovely quilt!
YAY for the finish! It's gorgeous!
Love this! What a great quilt, and amazing quilting!
I always enjoy looking at the quilting you do to complete your quilts. It complements the design so well.
Very Pretty! love the colors and the quilt is so dainty and lovely.
WoW, absolutely beautiful quilt! Love the quilting too!
I love the way you set the blocks. The quilting works great with the pattern. And I love the colors!
So pretty! I love the layout you chose!
And your quilting is absolutely amazing . . . it must have taken countless hours!!!
Hi!!!! It is beautiful as usual!!!!! Love it all!!!! The binding is wonderful!!!!!!! I had missed your post of your little girls dresses!!!!! Adorable!!!! It looks like they love them too!!!!
It's lovely to see it all finished. The blocks are fun, I love the layout and the quilting is inspirational. A wonderful quilt.
So Pretty!
I am impressed how such a "relative simple" pattern has such a hug impact by just alternating the zigzags!!! well done!!!
Esther
I love this, and what an inspired layout! Really stunning – give great movement and reminds me of the huge flocks of starlings we get, wheeling through the evening twilight – it's called a murmuration
I'm really impressed by the changes in quilting textures on the triangles. I wonder when you do that, do you switch from the zigzag to the paisley or do you do zigzag and then jump down to another zigzag and then go back and fill in wth paisleys? (Does that make sense?)
Congratulations on a great finish. My Drunkard's Medallion that I just posted about was a year in the making. I should finish it up next week!
Yes!!! It turned out soooooo beautiful, Nicole! The quilting is gorgeous, the colors are great, and it would absolutely look stunning in my house… 🙂 I know you are happy to have finally finished it. For me, it was worth the wait!
It's gorgeous! I never would have thought to use that layout. I love everything about the quilt – the colors, the design, the quilting, the binding – it's all amazing! Congratulations on finishing.
-Bobbi
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Really love this quilt- the colors, the layout and the quilting. You did such a wonderful job. Congratulations on the finish.
Love this! And your quilting is amazing! How nice of you to share a tutorial with all of us 🙂
Perhaps the birds went south for a bit. You did a lovely job and I like the setting. Beautiful dresses in the previous post too
This is gorgeous, Nicole! I really like the layout–I've not seen anything quite like that before, and it works so well. I like that the Vs kind of reference, well, birds in the air. And I know I've been drooling over this on IG, but your paisleys are really pretty. 🙂
So glad to learn you have a tutorial, because I was trying to visual how to put this all together. Love it! Thanks.
It looks fabulous Nicole! Love the colours, love the setting and the quilting is amazing!
Just finished catching up! This is absolutely gorgeous – I love all those swirls. I must get better at free-motion – I keep seeing all these inspiring quilting designs…
Love this! Can't believe it's a bee quilt–it looks like the work of one person.
I love everything about it Nicole. It turned out fantastic.
This is just so wonderful! I love everything about it.
Beautiful quilt! What a great result from a bee.
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