PRETTY BIRDS

Your favorite quilt shop can order printed booklet patterns from my distributors. The pdf pattern is available here.

Cockatoos, Toucans, Cockatiels, Macaws, and Lorikeets! These feathered friends may not live together in the wild, but they make a happy, colorful (and probably pretty loud) family in this fat-quarter-friendly sampler quilt. Make a 69” x 79” Large Quilt with 40 fat quarters, or a 36” x 37” Small Quilt with 10 fat quarters. The blocks are made entirely of square and rectangular pieces sewn together using conventional patchwork techniques. No templates or paper piecing!

The pattern includes a chart that shows the Kona Solids I used in my own quilt samples. You can use the same fabric or use my chart as a guide for selecting your own fabrics. Whichever fabrics and colors you use, the guide will help you to distribute them evenly throughout the quilts.

FABRIC GUIDE

You can use this guide with your original-edition Pretty Birds pattern to make a quilt that looks like the one on the cover of the most-current edition.