Comfort Zone Out

Pushing myself from my comfort zone.

It has been so long since I posted! I have been working on some new things in the last few weeks and I am seriously thinking of submitting them to a couple of different places. Because of the rules I can not show them. I have not done this before for various reasons. One of the biggest stumbling blocks being fear of rejection. The fear still lays low but I am going to do my best to ignore it and just go for it and hope for the best. After all the worst thing would be that it goes no where. And so what. If I never attempt to get it out there then it is absolutely at that no where place any way!

So that said, I didn't want to put out a boring post of no pictures so here are the triplets that visited during lunch yesterday. They were bounding about and curious about my husband and I as we watched.

Mom was nearby and seemed quite comfortable with us snapping photos of her little ones. Heck, she probably really needed the break! As you can see from these next two shots, these guys were full of energy. Hard to get a non blurry shot in the dark woods!

A Flock of colorful birds all in a row

Here is the very nearly finished little birds hanging. It is photographed draped on the patio chair outside where I was finishing some of the hand work. I don't have a title for this yet. Suggestions welcomed!

Here is a detail of the birds. I felt it needed to have more texture so I added the seed stitches in the background. I wanted to give it a feel of more trees and leaves. Using the complimentary color of purple to give the suggestion of branches. I do still need to go over each bird with machine satin stitches to anchor the fused fabric.

These birds came about after seeing Nellies colorful 3D fabric birds. (link to Nellies Needles on side bar). This is not my usual type of work but it was fun to do. I wanted to give a go with fused fabrics in a quilt. My first intention was to do this lickity split and all with machine stitching...

Well, I just had to add the hand work. And it was crying out for prairie points for the border, so my fast track went sideways a bit. In the end I like this for its happy feel.