QUILTED

This little guy is all quilted.   Now all that is left to do is the trimming, binding, sleeve and pocket.

RED TWIG DOGWOOD

 I took this photograph a few weeks ago and liked it so much that I decided to use it for my next small bird quilt. 

 I chose my background fabric and border and fused them together and quilted them.
then I free cut  the branches from several red fabrics which had the fusible on them.

Once fused on I quilted the ones that were the furthest back first before laying others on top of them.  Here is where I am now in the process.

Hope all of you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend.  The entire week was busy for me as I had all of my flower beds to cleanup and vegetable garden to plant.  Then went out to my mother's to do more for her out there. 

Did go to the parade and memorial service here in town.....we are so thankful to all who have risked there lives for our country or paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can live in peace.

QUILTING

Quilting on the black feathers on my Puffin.  He is fun to work on and actually makes me smile when I look down at him while working.   Who can resist that sweet face?

More Details Added

After my first post today below .... I made some good progress on the details of this sweet fellow.  So now he is ready to be quilted.  I changed his placement on the background from where he was originally positioned with the tracing paper.  By having his beak overlap the border you get instant 3 dimension.  A good trick to use from time to time.

Fusing

Working on fusing the major parts of this bird.  I hope to add the details in today and then most of the shading will be done with thread.  Lots of quilting on this sweet fellow.

Dove

Have been working on the dove off and on for the last two days.   I am ready to quilt it now.  This will take a bit of time as there are a lot of feathers.  I am happy with him though....so he will only get better with the quilting.