Back to the birds

Ok, so my plan for this weekend was to put the binding on my experimental quilt.  But the three new In Flight patterns were tempting me, as was an idea I’d had back when I was making the original birds, of reversing the plain background and scrappy foreground.  I never followed up the idea at the time, because I wasn’t quite sure where I wanted to go with it.  Then I saw Tartankiwi’s rainbow zebra design, and things started clicking into place.
So, I now have a plan.  Here’s stage one of it, the hawk (with quite a few changes from Tartankiwi’s pattern):

Watch this space… (although not too closely, because I’ve only got one more weekend before term starts, so progress is likely to be very very slow)