I worked on this fabric postcard for one of the girls on the Birthday list yesterday and managed to get it finished this morning. I needs to be on its way to arrive in time for her birthday!!! I stitched together three pieces of fabric - a blue tone, a green tone and a brown tone to simulate a landscape. I added some batting, a white backing and then stitched a grid over the whole of it in white thread. I have seen some of these little birds on line both in the fabric and paper world so I thought I would try to make one. The body is just over half a circle in dark blue and I added a double wing in red and orange. The tail feathers are red swiss dot and the beak, a triangle of yellow. I added fusible webbing to the back of all the pieces and layered them as I went. Orange wing to red wing, then the wing to the bird, then the beak and the tail feathers where they needed to be and then the bird to the postcard front. Once they were in position I used black thread and a small zigzag to stitch them into place. I added two legs using the same zigzag stitch. I used straight stitch for the beak and added a yellow sequin with a black bead for its eye. Love the way it turned out! I added some polyester trim in dark brown around the edge which very nicely framed the whole thing!! It is off to my partner in today's mail!!
Therese