Lions & Tigers & Bears Oh My

Can you spot the mistake? - it's quite a major one. This is what sometimes happens when us quilters get over exited working on a project.

I finished putting this quilt top together and laid it out to consider how I wanted to quilt it.

Um......that's a strange way I've put those colours together I thought. 

Why did I put all the pink on one side of the quilt? That was an odd thing to do.

Then it hit me - I pieced the top in two halves - In my excitement to get the top completed I'd stitched and joined them together the wrong way around - Oh My!

There's no way I'm unpicking it - all the letters have been heat n bonded and stitched down. 

And there is hardly any of the fabric left to make new

So on to plan B

 I did have some flowers I'd cut out earlier and not used. 

I needed to bring some pink over to the left side.

I only had two Pink Flowers but visually odd numbers are better. 

So I'm using a yellow one as well. 

I've placed them so they highlight Lions, Tigers & Bears. 

I was tempted to try and make them into a lion, tiger and bear. But my Better Half told my I was over complicating it.

I'm making it to go in The Wizard of Oz exhibition that Swansea Quilters are putting on in the Waterfront Museum  Swansea as part of

  Swansea Festival of Stitch

August 5th - 19th

http://www.swanseafestivalofstitch.co.uk/

Celebration

I managed to spend some time lately working on my own projects.
I'm making a series based on some of my favourite photographs.  I've always loved taking pictures and the digital age means I can snap to my hearts content.

I'm currently working on five pieces inspired by my photographs. This one was taken in Alykanas on the Greek Island of Zante.  Our favourite spot for a relaxing holiday.  On this visit we were (still) celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

So I've printed out part of the above picture in black and white quick print so I could cut out and use the part I wanted as a template to make the fabric figures.

I kept it simple and used one of my go to work horse fabrics, Osnaburg, to create a piece of Applique.

Which I then outline stitched onto a background fabric.

I added some nice wavy Machine Quilting 

Job Done!

I'm pleased with that. 

It keeps the 'Essence' of the original picture for me.

It's propped up against a larger piece of work called

Over The Edge

But that's a whole other story...

I'd love to Share with you my other Social Media Links