Revisiting my Crow Piece

Story of the Crows

{originally done in early 2010}

This quilt came about recently when I read of a contest on/at Lark Books.They wanted at least 3 of 5 things on the quilt.

1-birds

2-mountains

3-silver things

4-re-purposed things

5-beads

this brought on an ah-ha moment for me.

With the recent interest in this piece, I sat looking at it this morning.

[ok, so it's on the bathroom wall...]

I learned a lot doing this.

The hand stitching.  The effects of them show up really well in this shot, ripples in the fabric.  I stitched the mountains north/south. If I had stitched them east/west, the ripples would go north/south 

and look more mountain-y.

The yarn birds.  I really like how they turned out, done with the wool yarn.

The larger birds.  I had stitched through paper for the original outlines because I didn't have another way to transfer them, the lines, to the black fabric.  Now I can see that adding more stitching would enhance them, whether by hand or machine.

The moon side of the mountains.  Really should have used a darker fabric to represent twilight.

Hopefully I will remember all this when I get back to one of the projects I have started, waiting patiently in my footstool.  Maybe the tropical one.