Quilt Notes: This version of RETURNING BIRDS with alternating dark and light triangles, also called RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS, is illustrated in Rhoda Oscher 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.