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Birdhouse baby quilt

27 x 37-inch baby quilt with Tracy Lizott'e "Housing Boom" panel made by Linda Theil, January 2019 by Linda Theil I recently completed this 27 x 37-inch baby quilt using the  "Housing Boom" panel from Tracy Lizotte's Beautiful Birds collection for Elizabeth's Studio LLC Patt #4319 (2016) Available on  Amazon . Closeup of "Housing Boom" panel from Tracy Lizotte's Beautiful Birds collection for Elizabeth's Studio LLC Patt #4319. The 2-inch sashing is white-on-white, and cornerstones are fussy-cut from the  overall bird-print #4310 in the same collection.  Binding is also cut from the overall bird print, #4310. Since it is a baby quilt that will be laundered frequently, I used machine stitching to secure the binding.  Quilting is also machine stitched following piecing lines. Note: The individual birdhouses are not printed square, and so care must be taken to square up each birdhouse and not simply add one-quarter-in...