}
Designs can be created from
actual photos of views from
real windows or from many patterns
available in books and online.
Also making good use of a conversation print, Pat March
purchased the fabric used in her quilt, Birds through my
Window, because it reminded her of the Rosella parrots that
she can see eating flowers and seeds from the Pride of India
trees outside her window. After she finished the binding there
were some fabrics left over and Pat decided to make the
free-standing birds that were added here and there.
Cathedral window quilts suit themselves to a plain fabric for
the background and a print for the window. Originally, these