"Peace" unfinished

 Yesterday we lost a very good friend named Todd.  He was a kind and generous man and died way too young in his early 50's.  He had cancer.  He left behind his wife and 4 children.

So in honor of him I will title this piece "Peace".  I am happy with it ....still need to add the binding and the sleeve and label to the back...but wanted to show you some detail shots as well.

I will try to finish it completely tomorrow and post the true finished piece then.

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.

Feathers

Yesterday was spent quilting the branch and the under body.    Today quilted the tail and added the back and the wingtips.  It is slowly coming together.

Bird & Branch

 Began the under body feathers today as will as the tail.   These are at the lowest part of the birds body and under all the other feathers so they go on first with the tail going on over them.

 Here you can see the mossy branch  as well as the section shown above and the tail all on the background.

Finally I recheck the layout with my sketch.  This is why I love to sketch on tracing paper because you can be sure your placement is right by laying the sketch on top of the pieces that are ready to be fused down.....They look good so they are fused and tomorrow I will quilt this section to the background.