In Pocatello, it feels like summertime in the city of Chicago at the moment. It’s hot and muggy. So hot and muggy that I plopped my torch down in the studio and came in for a glass of lemonade and my sewing machine instead. I have a few sewing projects on the go, one is the perfect picnic blanket and the other has been more of an embroidery project that I’ve been meaning to attach to an aspen branch I picked earlier in the spring.
I wanted to do some colorful machine stitching around the little grey bird so I sewed a little in turquoise blue and then a little in red and then a little in mustard yellow and then I stitched little grey yellow bird who lays the large red egg to the aspen branch. I wanted the entire thing to look somewhat deconstructed…or at least as wild and tidy as bird nests tend to look so I didn’t use any interfacing on the back of the cotton cloth I used and I made sure to pull a few strings to cause a few rumples here and there.
Et voila:
He’s cute.
…and those are some of my books.
I hope you’ve had a lovely day!
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