A BIG freebie project

Now, here's a really big project, which I'm offering as a collection of freebies. On the 22nd of February this year I posted a picture of a wall-hanging of colourful birds among a lot of leaves, and I thought it might be fun to pass this on as a freebie. Here's another version of it, as stitched by Cherri

Cherri's version

As you can see, there are 9 separate designs, which were meant to be stitched together to make a large panel. Each of the 9 designs is 5 x 7 inches (130 x 180 mm), and designs with birds alternate with designs of greenery. There is quite a lot of appliqué involved – the birds are appliquéd on, as well as the "branches" of the greenery. I thought I'd split this up into 5 monthly parts, the first four parts consisting of one bird block and one greenery block, and the last one just with the final bird. 

As to what you do with these designs, of course it's up to you! If you don't like the idea of a wall-hanging, you could use the birds separately – on cushions, for example, or as part of a quilt or any other project. The greenery panels are a little more limited in use, which is why I'm pairing them with the birds

If you do stitch them all together into one large panel, you can either butt the designs up next to each other (as Cherri and I both did) or you can stitch "frames" of sashing between the individual blocks – it's up to you

By the way, when you stitch them out you will notice that there is a vermilion basting stitch "frame" around each design, which was meant to make it easier to align the blocks accurately when you're stitching them together. However you can of course leave this out if you prefer

So here are the first two blocks, in .pes v.6. Block 1 is here, and the worksheet is here. Block 2 is here, and the worksheet here