The Woodland Friends contest project is in the mail as I type...

Day 93

Well the whole thing is finally over. It was sent off in the mail yesterday and what a joy and relief.

I think it has been one of the most rewarding creating experiences for me in a long time. I was able to see this project through from an idea in my head to an actual physical thing in my hands.

It was not without it's trials and mistakes and learning experiences. Of course that is why I take on different challenges so that I can learn new techniques or new ways of doing stuff. And some of the parts of this took longer than I planned like the sequins, the hand stitched mouths and little birdy legs, the piecing, the tabs that had to be unstitched remeasured and resewn after I realized I sewed them on backwards (yea there was much cursing when I noticed this, the best laid plans and all ya know)

Almost everything turned out exactly how I intended except for the borders-because I wanted the edges to look a certain way I ended up allowing it to be an almost primitive not so perfect style and allowed some of the green background fabric to peek through in some places. You can sort of see it in this terrible night time picture because I almost forgot to take pictures of the entire project hanging up SIGH...and this is pre-ironing, almost forgot to iron too lol

...quite honestly I hope that it does not take away from the judging of my project because it does end of making the whole thing look sort of unfinished BUT then again this is the way I wanted it to look so I am cool with the way it turned out in the end! And yes I did 'bling' out my mushroom with different colored sequins thank you very much.

The feathers on the baby owl turned out EXACTLY how I imagined and they were H-A-R-D to piece just so....can you see the whites of his eyes? EVERY part of this project was from the fabric I was given and his eyes are cut from the tiny trees in the design!

Even the whites of the bear and moose (and some of the mushroom dots) are from the fabric turned right side down

AHHHHH <---contented sigh because it is finished and out of my hands. I know that I did it so whatever the end result is (whether I win or not) I LOVE LOVE this project.

I did not know I was capable of cute...

Day 89

...seriously I just didn't know. It is turning out cuter every day.

I placed the cut pieces onto the green background and they blended in a little too much so...cute but not ultimate cuteness yet right?!

As I pondered what to do my husband came in and said I should use some scraps to do a border/outline around each of the animals to make them stand out. He really does have great ideas, he even picked out which color would look best with each one.

See almost finished cuteness (the tissue paper piece is from where I am still working on the Moose's eye to to get it just right.)

Get this, my hub is getting so into helping me with my art that he wanted to know why Clothworks did not add a blue color to this line lol lol I LOVE it!

So we slept on it to see if we still liked it this morning and once we placed the borders around it --the ultimate cuteness popped out....oh so adorable....will get it stitched up in the next couple of days....can't wait to see it finished!

Random backyard flower picture....don't these lilies look like birds? Ok well maybe it is just me but I just liked the way they looked in the early morning light.

Let the work for the contest begin!!

Day 85

The fabric arrived in the mail yesterday from Clothworks and I have the pattern all tested for the Woodland Friends II Contest I am a finalist in.....

....and yes it is due by the end of July but that is ok I work well under pressure! I am surprised at how vibrant the fabric is compared to what it looks like online but a good surprised as in I LOVE the bright colors!

I can totally see this fabric collage I am making hanging in a room of the under-kindergarten set but then again my girls who are nearly 12 and nearly 10 both love it and want it in their room so go figure.

I will be cracking that bull whip tomorrow.....humming Rawhide theme song although I prefer the one done by the Blues Brothers Ah those were the days when TV and movies were actually funny course it could have been all the drugs they were doing at the time--- "hut hut hut hut"

P.S. If you have time be sure to browse through the Clothworks 'What's New' Section for their upcoming collections....so many possibilities so little space to store it all lol...especially love that Farmgirl's Collection and Le Jardin de Papillons