zondag 6 juli 2025

tiny owl

Last month I've added one more to my considerable list of bird-pieces.
This time I pieced together a tiny owl
The tiniest of all owls,
not much bigger than a blackbird !



I made my first bird, a robin,
in the Stitch Club workshop by Many Pattullo
in December 2020.

She often re-uses pieces of old quilts
as a background in her work, but I piece mine together
with varies pieces and leftovers in the colours that I need
that I baste to a slightly bigger cotton background.
For the bird I start to look at many photographs
and then make a sketch of the position I like best,
to have a template to build up the bird with snippets of fabric.



Then comes the job of stitching all these tiny pieces together
(hmmmm, fiddly business)



When and eyes, beak, feet and some "feather-stitches" are added
I just have to make some extra stitches in the background.

The last task is painting a 20 x 20 cm canvas
and stitch the finished piece onto it !
(ohh, that last bit still has to be done !)

6 opmerkingen:

  1. Oh my word Els!! Your work is so amazing 🙂 Love the owl. We have a couple that live outside of our place. We love hearing them, which happens mostly in the fall. ~Nancy

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    1. ((Nancy)) I heard one a few years back with the door to the balcony open . . . a bit later he was sitting in the ginkgo tree in the garden ! (just a silhouettte but special !)

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    1. Dankjewel Conny ! Vogels maken blijft een leuk werkje :-)

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  3. al wat jij maakt heeft zijn schoonheid

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    1. Ahhhh Maria, dankjewel ! Hij is nu gezoomd en het canvas is geschilderd. (maar dat moet ik nog even op een paar plekjes bijwerken zodat de zijkant prcies past bij de stof)

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