Introducing Yellow Bird's Sister

Do you remember the quilt Yellow Bird that was made by my friend Babs? It got its name from the fabric that was used. It was a black, white and yellow border print by Vera Bradley and it was called "Yellow Bird". I showed her my method for fussy cutting from a strip of fabric and she used it to make all of the hexagon rosettes.

Yellow Bird by Babs 2014

There were leftover 1" hexagons from Yellow Bird and she wanted to use so she decided to make another quilt quilt that would be a sister quilt to Yellow Bird!

She also had one star that I taught her to make. The Yellow Bird leftovers and this star were the starting point for the new quilt, Yellow Bird's Sister.

Slowly it started coming together.

Here yhou can see she has made a large hexagon and added a black border.

A border of triangles followed. There were still a few more black hexagons to be added to the corners.

After she got this it to this point she had used most of her grey, black and yellow hexagons and decided that she didn't want to go any further. She wanted to take it to a rectangle shape and be finished with it. The decision was to add so strips to four sides and then add triangle units. She had a lovely grey fabric with a hexagon print so that is what was used. It looks really nice but is a little short on the WOW factor.

She removed the corners and replaced them with a darker print and the whole quilt just pops!

Yellow Bird's Sister by Babs 2015

This is going to be yet another fabulous quilt by Babs! I think she will hand quilt this one and then bind it with black. I hope you enjoyed seeing this quilt top!

Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H