My original quilt inspired me by...

My original entry was in summer colors, but now we are in winter so in thinking of the Challenge I began to think about the changing seasons. I love the color red and I love nature, and I wanted to applique something that represented nature. That feeling is incorporated through the warm colors, as well as the bare trees and the machine-quilted snowflakes falling from the air. In naming the quilt I felt like birds need berries and sometimes when it's really cold they could even use a warm blanket. "It's For the Birds"... literally.

I experienced the following challenges with this quilt...

My only challenge was working on multiple quilts with a Christmas deadline and the Challenge quilt just a week later. A couple of nights I was up past 2 am but in the end, it all worked out.