Sunday, March 10, 2013

Unwinding Freebird

For my 4 year old niece, I made a Jaybird Quilts pattern, Unwind, using a Freebird jelly roll I purchased in my first year of quilting.  
I see the stars right away and have to think about the zig zags.  My daughter saw the zig zags (her name for them), and had to be told about the star shapes.  Still waiting on the backing fabric to arrive.  I found some Freebird yardage for $3.50/yard at Del Ray Fabrics and figured it would be better to get that for the back and save some other fabrics for a different quilt back.  

I ended up needing to trim the blocks to 12.25" because I didn't manage to sew the triangle pieces as straight as I should have.  Perhaps next weekend I'll manage to baste and quilt it.  My niece's birthday isn't until May so I have some time to finish this one.

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