Quilt Notes: This version of RETURNING BIRDS with alternating dark and light triangles, also called RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS, is illustrated in Rhoda Ochser Goldberg's QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, 1988. A simpler two-color dark on light version was reproduced in the Kansas City Star in 1946, according to Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS, American Quilters Society, 1993.

For more geometric quilt designs depicting birds see: BIRD OF PARADISE, CROW'S FOOT, DARTING BIRD(S), MIGRATION SOUTH, PIGEON TOES, SWALLOWS ON A STAR and TAKING WING.