Bird's Nest Block Quilt Top

I’ve always really liked this Bird’s Nest block. A very long time ago, before rotary cutters, I cut templates to make a quilt using this block. I made exactly…one block, about 12 inches! I was short on construction skills and cutting with templates just isn’t fun (nor especially accurate in my case)! I turned my one block into a cover for a throw pillow I still have it some place but I’m not sure where I tucked it away after the last time I laundered it!

So, older and wiser, I’m tackling the Bird’s Nest Block again. I now have the tools and know-how to easily make a quilt using a stack of these blocks, but I’m sticking with tradition and making a one block baby quilt!

Here is my top. It’s 42 inches square at the moment. I have more running bunny fabric, so I might add a border on the top and bottom of the quilt to make it a rectangle. Or not!

Bird’s Next One Block Quilt Top, 42 inches square

Those yellow triangles are big! They are going to need some imaginative quilting. An adventure for another week!

One Block Baby Quilt Completed: Birds Roosting

My One Block Baby Quilt, “Birds Roosting” is all done. It was lots of fun to quilt. Here are some of the details.

• There is scalloped quilting under the birds so it looks like they are sitting on a nest…or a hammock!

• There are uneven scalloping “feathers” in the orange blocks around the central focal square.

• There are free motion quilted bird nests in each of the hot pink cornerstone squares.

• Tracking around the turquoise leafy triangles in a stitch built into my Bernina that always reminds me of bird tracks!

I wasn’t sure i could stitch out the four nests but drew a quick diagram and realized that it was totally doable…not that different from the free motion flowers I stitch often! All four nests are a little different…but then they would be in real life!

The backing in an airy leafy fabric I had in my stash from last summer which is just perfect!

I don’t know if the baby is a girl or a boy. With all the colors, I think the quilt is really gender neutral, but I put on a blue binding to balance off those hot pink cornerstone blocks and the light pink triangles at the edge of the quilt.!

For more information about this quilt and the focus fabric “Roosting Place” see my post from June 9, 2022.

I’m super happy with how this quilt came out!

One Block Baby Quilt Top

I saw this quilt block (the central square which finishes with the light blue) on an online Shop Hop a few weeks ago. It was supposed to be a 12 inch bloc which is really a good size for a block this complex. But I looked at how many patches it had and decided to turn it into a 36 inch block with a 4 1/2 inch outer border and make a one block quilt instead!

The delightful bird fabric was designed by Kate Rhees. It’s called “Roosting Place” and is available at Spoonflower.com. I used a fat quarter to make this quilt, and still have enough left to make a coordinating doll quilt. All the other fabrics came out of my stash!

I have a few other projects in the works at the moment, so I’m not sure when I’ll get this quilted. But I’ll show it again when it’s done.