Another fabric postcard for a birthday swap on one of my groups. I started with a piece of this fabric collage background which I created a while back. I added batting and then some crazy quilt hand stitching on all of the lines between the different fabrics. I then cut a paisley shape out of light blue fabric and stitched it into place with my sewing machine going around several times to give the bird some definition and once in the middle to create the wing. I added a beak using a small triangle of heat & bonded black fabric. I hand stitched the eye, the legs and feet and the frilly tail feathers in black. It needed something to help define the ground so I added some turquoise flowers with green stems and yellow centers. That worked!! I stitched on a black border with zigzag, added a white anf pink floral backer and stitched it into place with straight stitch all the way around. Next, I folded over the black border and adhered to the backer with fusible web. I restitched the border with straight stitch really close to the outside edge to finish it off. Pretty happy with how it turned out though it is a bit busier than I thought it would be when I started!!
Therese
Therese