I do think the little bird would need to be enlarged a bit for a quilt block. (Maybe not if you were doing a baby quilt). That wouldn't be too hard with an enlarging copier (which, actually, is not widely available in more rural areas. Which is why it frustrates me that a lot of pattern books now print patterns with the instructions "enlarge to 140%" or some such. I have access to an older copier on campus, but it only has "set" enlargements - like 129%, not "dial up the enlargement you want" setting. I suppose now some scanner printers will do the same thing.)

I remember as a kid sometimes having to do the old "grid trick" - you draw a grid of squares of specified dimension (usually 1") and then redraft the pattern onto the big grid from the smaller grid it was printed on in the book or magazine. (Many magazines had maddeningly small grids...it was like, "You expect me to get the detail correct from that tiny of an original?" I guess the "grid method" of enlarging is mostly a lost skill now. (I will admit to being a lot less enthusiastic about making a project when I had to enlarge the pattern first)

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I got more done on the pillowcases. This is the one that's farthest along:



The butterflies are done, and I'm slowly adding the outlining.

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We had some borderline severe weather on Saturday. We never get the "golf ball" or "tennis ball" sized hail that the weathercasters salivate over, but this go-round, we did get some tiny, pea-sized hailstones:



They had mostly melted by the time I got the camera out.