Today’s quilt block is one version of the popular Doves at the Window (or in the window?) quilt block. Download the pdf guide and watch the video to see how to make it.
3D Dove Window Quilt Block Guide
Video transcript:
Hi I’m Tes Scholtz with Tulip Square and today I’m going to show you how to make this Quilt Block now I have heard this called doves at the window doves in a window the dove window
but I’ve also seen a very different block and that’s also called doves at the window so
I don’t know who’s in charge of naming these things but it seems to me that anything with the four
bird shapes like this flying towards the square in the middle no matter what the size is and all qualify as doves at the window I don’t know if anybody knows the secret behind that let me know tell me in the comments
so this is my version and I’m calling it the 3D Dove Window because that seems to be appropriate enough and let’s head over to the sewing machine and I’ll show you how it all goes together
for our first color the lightest color we’ve got 12 of these
two and a half by four and a half inch pieces and four two and a half inch squares
Then for your medium color you have 16 two and a half inch squares and also 16 two and a half inch squares of your darkest color
and then one four and a half inch square of whatever your center is
now you can use one of these colors for your center or one of these two or you can just use an accent color like I did or you could even fussy cut something fun for the middle or if you were making a quilt or a runner or something you could make each center a different color lots of options here
so to start with we are going to take all of our four and a half inch lightest pieces and we’re going to sew going to make flying geese but we’re going to make two colored flying geese so we’re going to start off by sewing the darkest square to the left hand side
you’re going to sew right along here
diagonally
Now you’re going to have four of the dark squares left over at the end of this step we’ll use those soon enough
so right now
we’re going to cut these corners off
and press them toward the corner now you may have noticed
an extra seam there before I cut that and I do that on purpose so that I can save this
half square triangle for another project and I talk all about that in an upcoming video so watch for that
I’ll give you lots of ideas for what to do with those extra corners
now you have these pieces and you’re going to sew the medium colored square
to the opposite corner
right along this way
I’m going to do that with all of these
and again you’ll have four extra of this color square as well that we’re about to use
now we’re going to cut off all of these corners
and press them toward the corner and we’ll be right back I I will be right back not sure why I keep saying we
for all the different personalities living in my head I guess
I have 12 flying geese
I have a few of these left and we’re just going to pair these up and
sew a diagonal line right down the middle
and we’re just going to cut one corner off
and press those toward the dark color
okay now you have your flying geese you have four of these and you have four of your
lightest color square
and you have your center
so we’re going to start with the center and we’re going to sew one of two of the flying geese one on either side
like that
triangles pointing outwards so
just going to sew a nice quarter inch seam there
and one there
now we’re going to press that
and set that aside for a moment I’m going to work on the next strip there’ll be two of these so you’re going to match up your flying geese
with these half square triangles put the dark triangle with the medium triangle
on both of them
and then put the medium triangle to the dark side on both of them
just like that okay
two of those stripes
flip that over sew it right there
flip this over sew it right there now I’m going to press those and I’ll be right back with the next step
did I mention which way I pressed I pressed this piece toward the center and then I pressed these pieces away from the center so that for this next step they will all nest together nicely
so the next step is this
take this piece that we made
and put one of these at the top and one at the bottom
Make sure all these light triangles are pointing away
put that right there sew a nice quarter inch seam there
and
here with a nice quarter inch seam
now we’re going to press that and we’re going to make the next piece
the next piece is simple
You’re going to take the rest of your flying geese that you have left pair them up side by side
and sew them together
do that with all the rest
Now you have four of these strips and on two of them
you’re going to put a light colored square at each end
Sew that on with a seam there
and one there
Now I’m going to press these and I’ll be right back to put the whole thing together
okay now we have the center square
which is pretty cute already isn’t it
we’re going to take these two shorter strips that we made
we’re going to make sure the white triangles are to the outside
line it up like this so the mediums match and the darks match
we’re going to sew that
right along there and then we’re going to do the same thing
on the other side
matching up these colors with the white to the outside
just like that okay now I’m just going to press that and I will be back with the final step
there is your center
now we have our final strips
we’re going to add that
make sure the white is to the outside and line up these colors here
sew that right there
line up these seams
and do the same thing
at the top
lining that up with the white to the outside
sew right there
okay one final press and there it is
and there you have it all done the doves in the window at the window near the window hovering around the window whatever they’re doing at the window that’s how they are and make sure you download our PDF that’s got all of the cutting instructions that you need and we also show different examples of how it could look in different configurations so we generally do that on all of our PDFs so if you want an idea of how it would look in a quilt or a runner or something make sure you grab those PDFs and check that out okay
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