Sew & Tell Friday #40

I worked on several different quilts this week, none of which would qualify as a Friday finish.  

So I took a break from the big quilts and made this mini bird house quilt.  I was inspired by this little red bird house while browsing  Flickr.  

I started with this little bird, which I cut in a wonky shape, and added scraps I had on hand.  Many of the scraps are from Plume by Tula Pink.  The border is Nest from Valori Wells.  I love that there is bird theme fabric in my bird house quilt.  

The bird house looked like this at one point.  I thought it was too tall, so I chopped some off the bottom.   I added an inner border and then the Nest outer border.  I still plan to add some cute bird buttons once the quilting is complete.

I am hoping the bird buttons will help it look more like a bird house.  My daughter thinks this is cute, but she doesn't think it looks like a bird house.  Maybe a bird button on the roof and one on the base?

Luckily I've learned to take pictures of the quilt top before I mess it up with my quilting.  Here is the beautiful Anna Maria Horner Garden Party backing.  I had the brilliant idea to quilt around the gorgeous patterns on the back.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well it looked....until I looked at how the design was placed on the front.  I spent quite a bit of time with my seam ripper last night!

Before I go check out the creative goodness over at Sew and Tell Friday, I'd like to mention that my middlest turns 18 today!  Happy Birthday sweetie!!!  I can call him sweetie because I know he won't see this ;-)

Have an amazing weekend!!!!