I have the background ready to start on the applique.

When my background fabric shows through my lighter appliqué fabric I slide a similarly shaped piece of Ricky Tim’s “Stable Stuff” between
the appliqué fabric and background fabric. Stable Stuff is; thin, washable, being polyester becomes part of the quilt and the pattern can be traced on it with removable ink products. I have used this product many times in quilts and wall hanging and have always been pleases. The Stable Stuff is a little stiff but becomes softer with handling and very soft with washing. It may still be available at Ricky Tim’s site. It came in a package of 8x11” sheets and a larger size.

I know Alex hasn't touched on it yet, but I love fusible applique. So I am adding my state bird, the scissortail, to my quilt.

What is the size of your background? I want to make mine smaller but I dont know what size yet . Didnt know how many pinwheels to make it fit sides and top.
Thank you in advance.

Finished my background made it 75% smaller and scaled everything else down as well. Will be using AccuQuilt round flower for my flowers

Won't have time to do a birdhouse quilt til later in the year, but I am taking some time to practice my EQ8 and get ideas for later.
A tip for keeping your glue stick from drying out while doing Rosa's Appliquick method. I take a saucer and get a wet paper towel, folded.
Set it next to where I am working. Each time I use the glue stick, I just set the open stick so the glue is on the paper towel and it does not dry out the glue stick.
I have done it for a couple hours without having the stick dry out. HelenW

I have the background and pinwheels done. The bottom row of pinwheels will be added after the applique has been added. The second pic are the petals of my first flower made with satin taffeta.

What size is the quilt? Is it the same as the original birdhouse 32x40?

Absolutely Gorgeous.. very pretty..

My version of Jen Kingwell ‘long time gone’. I added a row all around because I wanted it bigger. I called it ‘stash busted’

Tried a background with the solids that I have and didn't like it at all. Then I decided to make it half sized and made the center from my collection for applique and liked the results. Someone had asked about Flying Geese and that sounded fun. Made them but they were way to big even to fit on the background correctly but worked around that. Didn't like the size and with all of the white, white flowers wouldn't look right. Next try, make the smaller Flying Geese 1"x2" with a blue background. Finially ready for the next step.

This is the back ground I chose, the discard are below.

go here
thequiltshow.com/learn/projects
then click the button and scroll down on the next page
learn > project > click the button > scroll down

Helen, I agree with you and that is what I was thinking just needed clarification. Also, I can use birdhouse posts or flowers etc. to cover any finagling I might have to do.

MommyG1 wrote:
MommyG1, These hexagons are for another project, but I thought I would audition around a single piece of fabric to see what it would look like
with a hexie border and then just build the applique on the the single piece for the bird houses, etc. I tried all hexie layout and it was way, way to busy to
add applique on top of. Just playing around. HelenW