A trip to Venice inspired the Songbird collection, with its references to the Art Nouveau style. The Stile Liberty can be found in ornate buildings and old cafés around town, but Murano glass chandeliers, hidden gardens and the romantic way of life, also made me think about the ornamental outlined drawings of the era.
The hand-drawn patterns of Songbird are just a sweet nod to the more elaborate designs of Art Nouveau, but it has been fun to try to recreate the feel and look in a light, naiver way, especially in the Cora, Aubrey and Songbird designs.
The color palette has a light, dusty-pastel feel that is not typical for the 1900s, but I wanted to tone down the busy patterns and give the collection a soft, watercolor-like effect. This is a collection for those who love light and delicate and is perfect for spring and summer. When thinking about this time in history, where I’m sure there were hardships, my mind nonetheless goes to soirées, with ladies in lovely dresses amid columned gardens surrounded by dragonflies and butterflies, which are motifs much used in Art Nouveau. This inspired the quilts and pillows that we will release with the collection. The Mosaic Butterfly Quilt from 2020 was the perfect fit and is renewed in the dusty pastels of Songbird, joined by the Garden View and Soirée quilts and pillows.
Design - Tone Finnanger / Quilts/pillows - Anne Berit Røed Pedersen, Ingun Eldøy and Bente Moe / Quilting - Julia Søberg, Lena Karen Bertheussen, Sonja Elisabeth Pedersen and Bodil Egeberg / Styling - Anna Gran and Tone Finnanger / Scene carpentryErik Thorbjørnsen / Model - Anna Gran / Photo Nadia Norskott / Prepress - Petter Bye
Pictures feature an array of pillows and a fabric stack in the Coral and Green colorway, Garden View quilt in Blue with pillows and the Blue Yellow Soiree quilt . All the projects featured in this catalogue are available as free patterns on www.tildasworld.com
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Lovely Green and Coral Fabrics are used in the Garden View and Butterflies quilts with pillows.
Songbird
CORAL
300252 Fat Quarter Bundle 5 fabrics, 20x22 in Red
100644 Ava Coral
100645 Songbird Coral
100642 Cora Coral
100643 Aubery Coral
100641 Flora Coral
GREEN
300253 Fat Quarter Bundle 5 fabrics, 20x22 in Green
100649 Songbird Green
100650 Ava Green
100648 Flora Sage
100646 Aubery Green
100647 Cora Sage
Summery soft Blues and Yellows, here in the Butterflies quilt in Light Blue, Garden View quilt in Blue and Soiree quilt in Blue Yellow. All with matching pillows.
BLUE
300254 Fat Quarter Bundle
5 fabrics, 20x22 in Blue
100655 Cora Blue
100654 Flora Blue
100652 Songbird Blue
100653 Aubery Blue
100651 Ava Blue
MUSTARD
300255 Fat Quarter Bundle 5 fabrics, 20x22 in Yellow
100660 Ava Teal
100659 Songbird Mustard
100658 Flora Mustard
100656 Aubery Mustard
100657 Cora Mustard
LILA & STELLA BLENDERS
300256 Lila & Stella Blenders
Fat Quarter Bundle 12 fabrics, 20x22 in
Lila blenders are lovely backgrounds in quilts and pillows.
110150 Lila Peach
110151 Stella Coral
110152 Lila Coral
110153 Lila Sage Mist
110154 Stella Sage
110155 Lila Green
110156 Lila Light Blue
110157 Stella Blue
110158 Lila Blue
110159 Lila Light Yellow
110160 Stella Yellow
110161 Lila Mustard
SONGBIRD PRECUTS & BUTTONS
400075
300253
300254
300255
SongbirdButtons 0,63 in (16mm), 8 pcs
400074 Songbird Buttons 0,63 in (16mm), 8 pcs
300252
300257 Fat Quarter Bundle 20 fabrics, 20x22 in
300258 Fat Eight Bundle 20 fabrics, 20x11 in
300259 Charm Pack 5 in squares, 40 pcs (2 of each)
300260 Fabric Stack 10 in squares, 40 pcs (2 of each)
300256
300261 Fabric Roll 2,5 in strips 40 pcs (2 of each)
Songbird
The next pages feature a selection of basic collections that we have picked from to accompany the Songbird fabrics in quilts and pillows.
Visit tildasworld.com to see our Basic Catalogue with the full basic range.
Pictures feature Soiree quilt Coral Green with Coral and Mist pillows and the popular Flower Branch Embroidery quilt, where we have used all our Chambray fabrics.
All our patterns are available by clicking on Free Patterns at tildasworld.com, Songbird patterns under Collections and Flower Branch Embroidery quilt under Basics.
Chambray is a great addition to the Songbird collection in the Blue Garden View quilt.
CHAMBRAY BASICS
160033 Chambray Pine
160012 Chambray Olive
160004 Chambray Teal
160011 Chambray Sage
160007 Chambray Dark Blue
160005 Chambray Petrol
160008 Chambray Blue
160031 Chambray Prussian
160038 Chambray Dark Grey 160037 Chambray Rosewood
Chambray is used for the hair of the ladies in the Coral Green
quilt and for details in the Butterfly quilt in Peach.
Soiree
Creating Memories are Seasonal Basics with a charming mix of small-patterned, printed and woven fabrics. The collection is divided into four seasons by color and is a great supplement to other collections. For Songbird we have used a selection of Creating Memories fabrics. All seasons are presented in our Basic Catalogue.
Pictures on this page show a selection of Songbird pillows where Creating Memories is used for some of the binding and backgrounds, and the Butterflies quilts in two colorways.
Picture on the left shows the Blue and Yellow Butterfly pillows where Creating Memories fabrics are used for backgrounds and details in the butterflies.
Seasonal Basics
The Spring and Easter Pastels colorway is a sweet collection of yellows, pinks and greens with a hint of teal. Perfect for Spring and Easter projects. It matches the Songbird collection well and feature in the Butterflies quilt in Light Blue shown in the picture.
130117 Gracie Yellow
130118 Carla Pink
130119 Frida Lime
130120 Avery Yellow
130121 Brie Green
130122 Harper Yellow
130123 Lulu Yellow
130124 Frida Pearl
130125 Evie Dove White
160061 Tinydot Pink
160060 Seamstripe Teal
160062 Stripe Yellow
160063 Tinystripe Pink
160064 Polkadot Yellow
160066 Plaid Pea Green
160065 Gingham Yellow
Seasonal Basics
The blue colorway is a nice color theme for summer and seaside projects, but is, of course, useful for any project where you need a good collection of blue fabrics. We are calling this Summer and Ocean Blues. The fabrics are used in several Songbird quilts, here in the Blue Garden View quilt.
130129 Gracie Blue
130134 Carla Blue
130126 Avery Blue
130131 Brie Blue
130128 Harper Blue
130130 Lulu Blue
130132 Frida Blue
130133 Evie Blue
130127 Berrytangle Prussian
160067 Tinydot Blue
160069 Seamstripe Blue
160068 Stripe Blue
160070 Tinystripe Blue
160071 Polkadot Blue
160072 Plaid Blue
160073 Gingham Blue
Seasonal Basics
The Autumn colorway contains a warm and cozy selection of ginger, honey, rust and brown tones with a hint of blue grey. The colors are perfect when making projects for Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween. Free patterns on tildasworld.com
The Ginger Shades are lovely with the Corals of the Birdsong Collection.
