Thursday, May 28, 2009

Live Piecefully-- June

My newest virtual quilting bee begins with June. Here's what I made for Kat:It felt really good to get back to my sewing machine tonight. This picture was taken before I squared it up-- ignore the ragged edges. The fabric is beautiful, and it's probably a good thing I don't have any yardage of that faux bois because it'd end up in just about everything. This fabric posed an interesting challenge for me: most of the choices were large scale prints on a yellow background, so fussy cutting and flipping around my squares and rectangles was important. Looking at it now, I'm pleased with the movement. I wanted it to look like a big bird was sitting on a branch, and that the branch was visible through a window. This was especially tricky, as the bird head was actually below the bird body in the piece I was mailed. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, I love the pink, yellow and gray. It feels very fresh.

4 comments:

  1. I am so loving this! The arrangement is really cool. I like how you made some of the pieces line up while others are offset. Its really visually interesting!

    I'm sorry that I fail at cutting though! I wanted to send people a whole bird, and somehow that just didn't happen. Kudos to you for rising to the challenge!

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  2. Looks beautiful. I hope mine turns out nice...I'm still playing the fabric trying to figure out what to do.

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  3. Oh my gosh! It's so beautiful! great job!

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  4. I really like the bird and those colors! Pretty! And I can see how you had to carefully arrange this to make the most of the design on the fabrics.

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