IN FLIGHT- Block 1- Swan

 

After months of teasing, I'm really excited to finally release the first block of the In Flight Quilt-Along.

As promised, you have two options. You can buy the complete pattern bundle or you can buy the patterns one at a time.

The first block of the In Flight Quilt-Along is a swan. I kept this design simple and elegant, so as to ease you all into the quilt-along.

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To me the simplicity of this design balances some of the more complicated designs that will appear later in the quilt-along.

To make this block you will need less than a Fat Quarter of background fabric and less than a fat eighth of fabric for the bird.

I am using Oakshottcottons for the birds of my quilt. The background is yarn dyed Essex linen.
For some blocks I use a single colour of Oakshott cotton, for others I will use a mixture of different tones to accentuate the feathers.

I kept this block simple with a single colourway.

 For more details about the In Flight quilt-along see the introductory post and this overview of all the posts.

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