{"id":5626,"date":"2025-04-28T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:28:17","slug":"and-the-final-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/and-the-final-five\/","title":{"rendered":"And the final five …"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past several days!<\/p>\n

The photo on the left has a sparrow, a bluejay, and a woodpecker. The photo on the right has a bullfinch and a house finch. I \u00a0think they’re all so cute, but there will be a delay of a few weeks before I can make the quilt top.\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

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What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past several days! 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