May 18, 2007
The Bluebird
Um...Has my commenting system been broken? Would someone please comment? I think I fixed it...
I finished the Bluebird piece. It feels good to finish something.
Here is another detail of the machine quilting. It isn't easy to get good detail shots.
I like this piece. It is my first piece of any size (18x24") to have been started and finished since we got here. I would like to work on the man and have not been feeling inspired by him. I will try to get him under the needle today.
I have already said these things but will reiterate, I screen-printed the orange "x's" in dye, then resisted out the bird and painted the background. I then painted the bird in dye, acrylic paint and oil crayons. I did the floating bubbles in oil crayons too and freezerpaper screen-printed the tiny blue dots (off to the upper right) before quilting the piece.