Thanks for the kind words on the Turkey quilt. After so many years of quilting and giving them away I realized my own quilts were really getting ratty so I decided to make myself a quilt for each month of the year. I'm not doing one a month -- some are taking awhile and it will take me a couple more years probably to complete them all. So while each month has a theme and it is pretty apparent what that is (some you do have to be told), I don't really want to go all-in on one holiday when the quilt will be out for a month at a time. The fussy cut turkey "pies" were a hoot, I had a couple different fabrics to choose from and actually cut a different fabric that I didn't use first.
I debated a long time between the merits of white or off-white rickrack. I decided I really wanted the element to show and was concerned the off-white would be missed. I think the white looks brighter in the picture than it does in real life.
Is subtle but the off-white background fabric has bird foot prints in it. I think it is supposed to be sand and shore birds but my quilt my happy place so I'm calling them turkey tracks!
This was one of the new techniques that I learned that was much easier, faster, and smoother than the last grandmother's fan I did which was the traditional set in seams.