Birds on Free Motion Mavericks

Welcome to week 402 of Free Motion Mavericks. I managed to find time to get a little bit of FMQ done yesterday. Today we are celebrating birds - the cute ones, not the Hitchcock ones😊

A flock of birds

I added some birds to Stéphane's Version 2.0 quilt. I found a few pictures on the web of simple bird outlines that I copied. I then drew templates of Canada Geese from a picture.

A flock of birds

I started by drawing out the area that needed to be filled on a sheet of long paper. I then placed my freezer paper templates over the area to see if it would work. It was a great idea, but of course, I didn't follow my plan!😊

Planning the placement of the birds

I copied the birds onto freezer paper thinking that I would iron-on the template and stitch on the very outside of them. It was ok, but when I stitched on the freezer paper, it was really hard to remove without affecting the stitches. So scratch off that idea!

Stitching the woodpecker from the freezer paper template

FMQ woodpecker

I then used my chalk pencil to draw around the template. That worked much better. After making the first bird that way, I just decided to do it again, and again!

Flock of cute birds

For that other space, I wanted to add the Canada Goose. Again I used the freezer paper as a template and drew around it.

Canada Goose

The last bird that I did stood on a branch. I drew around the bird template and then drew the branch.

Bird on a branch

Bird as seen from the back of the quilt

You can see here the goose and the bird.

Canada Goose and bird on a branch

October's One Monthly Goal

My OMG for October is to stitch another 2 areas of the Version 2.0 quilt. It helped last month to have a goal, so I'm going to do it again :-)

What I learned

• Freezer paper is fine for a template, if you can just FMQ around it. Don't use it if you have to stitch through it!
• I was pleasantly surprised that my chalk pencil worked on the light blue fabric.
• It was nice FMQ these birds since they were mostly near the edges of the quilt.

Related links

• Wildflowers on Version 2.0 with Free Motion Mavericks, September 22, 2022

Linking parties

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Free Motion Mavericks

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Sue Daurio's custom quilting on the San Marco quilt

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