The background is quilted and I stitched around the very edges of the bird and the post.
Next, I decided to add the black forked strip that starts over and under the eye and ends in the area of the back of the head ( something not really distinguishable on my bird). Here's a pic of the thread painting of the forked strip in progress. Once I finished that, I ran several black circles where the black outlines the eyeball. Oh, and I also outline stitched wing and tail feathers and then just did a meander on the post.
Then it was on to making fabric flowers and leaves....
I was going to do one more flower, but technically that would make four with the flower bud and I wanted to keep them odd numbered... although, now that I look at it here, there are three flowers plus the bud so maybe I should add one more... I'll decide that tomorrow.
Here is where I stopped tonight.... with paper feet. My friend, Katie, was helping me judge the size of the legs/feet... my first attempt was too thick; this is much better. Now I just want to see if I can figure out how to get those feet to look more like they are on the post and not in front of it. Maybe they'll look more real once the stitching is done. I'm going to try thread painting them also, but a little differently than I did the 'black fork' on his head. What I'm going to try is something I did on a granddaughter's quilt a few years ago. I wanted an applique' similar to those 'patches' you can buy and either iron or sew onto a background and was able to do it by thread painting on a stabilizer. When I did hers, it was much larger than two bird feet, but I think I can do it.... and not worry about messing up the quilt because they won't be attached to the quilt until I'm satisfied with how they look.
Ok, as usual, Buddy is waiting to go to bed.
take care....
ttyl....
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