Baby Quilts and Birds

 We made a trek up to Fairbanks on Saturday to deliver all the Christmas gifts and goodies. We had planned to go on Tuesday the 21st, but they were forecasting a foot of snow at least, so we thought it better to go up early. With a 200 mile round trip it is better to be cautious. It was so wonderful to see  all the kids, grand-kids and great grand-kids that we could. We also picked up prescriptions and did our monthly shopping, so it was a very long day.

I thought I would share a couple of baby quilts from this year. The first one was for our youngest son and his wife and their second little girl, Ivy, born on August 13, 2021.

You can see the quilting a little in this photo.

I made her second one out of some of the scraps.

The second baby quilt was for our newest great-grandbaby Allen. He was born January 4, 2021. Dinosaurs were requested!

You can see the quilting better in this photo.

Lynne Tyler of the Patchery Menagerie Blog (HERE) put out a call for student birds. Making some of her birds has been on my quilt bucket list for a while, so it seemed like a good time to try it out. You can find her pattern in her  Etsy shop HERE . My birds are really basic, but some of the participants  made some really unique birds. You can see some  of them HERE   HERE & HERE. Everyone was naming their birds so I gave mine names too.

This is Flatfish Barney, named after two nicknames for Halibut here in Alaska, flatfish and barn door

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Ms. Aurora Borealis

Pippi Longstocking

Eventually I would like to make a whole quilt using Lynne's bird pattern.

The winter storm they forecasted has hit, at least 8" of snow so far. A good time to stay home and quilt. After I shovel the roof! Rebecca