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Bird Houses and Feeders series: House #3!

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  Hi, paper piecing friend!   I have released another bird house in my new backyard series: Bird House #3, featuring a gold finch!  This one comes with another free download of one small block (seen above it in photo). This  “Flying Bird” block goes with the full backyard scene-- you’ll understand more if you have my planning document, see below! You may be familiar with my Bird blocks, or my National Park patterns, right now I am releasing a full backyard feeders and houses scene through the year.  It all includes Winter versions as well!      Here are this month’s 3 fun facts….. 1.  [Not my pattern…]  I made a table runner for Christmastime with the “12 Days of Christmas Sugar Cookies” patterns by Janeen van Niekerk at QuiltArtDesign.com   2.   I have both a male and female cardinal block in my shop, and if you get both of them, they do go together!   3. You know me as an FPP pattern designer, but I am also--and w...

FPP bird houses and feeders: Feeder 2!

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 Hi again, paper piecing friend! I have released another bird house in my new backyard series: Bird Feeder #2!   It’s the hummingbird feeder! This one comes with another free download of one small block (seen above the hummingbird feeder). This “UpperLeft Branch” block goes with the full backyard scene-- you’ll understand more if you have my planning document, see below! You may be familiar with my National Park patterns, right now my plan is to release all of my bird houses and feeders series’ blocks for the full backyard scene by the end of 2025. How about 3 fun facts?…..   1. My examples/tests you see here were sewn at 50% -- I’m making a “mini” scene (not like a huge quilt size but a good wall hanging or lap quilt). Since it is easier to print a pattern reduced, than to enlarge it, I designed these blocks simple enough to be shrunken and sewn even smaller, without any pieces being too tiny or detailed to sew FPP. But they are large enough at 100% to be a great siz...