[Music] hi I'm Tess Schultz 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 does at the window so I don't know who's in charge of naming these things but and it seems to me that anything with the four you know bird shapes like this flying towards a square in the middle no matter what the size is can 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 2 1/2 by 4 and 1/2 in pieces and four 2 and 1/2 in squares then for your medium color you have 16 2 and 1/2 in squares and also 16 2 and 1/2 in sq
uares of your darkest color and then one 4 and 1/2 in square of whatever your Center is now you 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 4 and 1/2 in lightest pieces and we're going to sew we're goin
g 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 but 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 a upcoming video so watch for that 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 you're 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 and 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 I'm not sure why I keep saying we it's for all the different personal living in my head I guess now I have 12 flying geese now I have a few of these left and we're just going to pair these up so 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 now you have four of your lightest color square and you have your Cente
r 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 the triangle is 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 p
ut the medium triangle to the dark side on both of them just like that okay two of those stripes F 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 mess together nicely so the next step is this take this piece that we made and put one of these at t
he top and one at the bottom make sure all of these light triangles are pointing away we're going to put that right there so a nice quarter and seam there and here 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 and now you have four of these strips and on two of them you're going to
put a light colored square at each end and sew that on seam there and one there now I'm going to press the 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 and 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 you're going to 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'r
e 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's your Center and now we have our final strips and we're going to add that make sure the white is to the outside and line up these colors here I'm going to 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 so it right there okay on
e 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 on a runner or somethin
g make sure you grab those PDFs and check that out okay so if you like this block and this video hit the little like button subscribe to our Channel um make sure you hit that little bell so you're notified every time we put up a new video and check out our website at tulip square.com where you'll find all our videos all of our patterns all of our free patterns our quilt blocks everything's there for you so check that out tell all your quilting friends and one happy sewing
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