When we lived in Pennsylvania, our home backed up into a wooded area. I was adding food to our birdfeeder daily.  We had every kind of bird - even a Baltimore Oriole - except for hummingbirds.  We didn’t have enough flowers for them in the backyard to draw them close.  We now live in Indiana and I have worked hard to gain the trust of hummingbirds.  We have them by the dozens.  Although we don’t have the variety of songbirds here like we did in PA, I still feed them daily and you can find me talking with them often!  Yes, I even talked with the appliqued birds on this quilt.  I hope you can have a great conversation with these Neighborhood Friends as you bring them to life through fabric.