A Bird on a Branch.

5 Jan

I spent Thursday and Friday working on this mini wall quilt. I am really happy with the way it came out.

Bird on a Branch Wall Quilt

I hand appliqued the bird {which I drew myself}. The tree trunk and branches are pieced by machine. They aren’t appliqued though, they are part of the background.

AnnabelleAnnabelle wanted to check it out

I stitched in the ditch around the trunk, branches and bird to stabilize. I drew a cloud shape template on paper, cut it out and with my trusty blue fabric marking pen I traced some clouds on there and free-motion quilted them. I am pretty happy with my free-motion quilting. I am enrolled in “Machine Quilting: Free Motion & More” and I did follow the instructions of the teacher both on my practice piece and on my clouds.

close up of the free motion quilting of the clouds

The back is pieced and I added a hanging pocket to the top, hand stitched, of course. You know the more things I hand stitch the more I like it. The binding was also hand stitched to the back.

pieced back with hanging pocket

I have listed this for sale on Etsy. It’s going to be hard to part with, but I can always make another one.

On a completely different note… I think from now on I will schedule my posts less and start posting as I write them. Maybe. We’ll see.

8 Responses to “A Bird on a Branch.”

  1. Pat @ Color Me Quilty January 11, 2013 at 11:40 am #

    I think you did a wonderful job with this mini! Very cute.
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    • Penny (admin) January 11, 2013 at 12:32 pm #

      Thanks. My first time really… unless you count my wizard but that was just quick swirls.

      Your fish is pretty awesome. Maybe someday I’ll be that good…

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  2. carol January 11, 2013 at 1:46 pm #

    Very nice! Love your quilting and I don’t think annabellenis going to let you sell it, she’s looking at that bird like you made it for her:-)

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    • Penny (admin) January 11, 2013 at 1:55 pm #

      LOL. That’s funny, I thought she was checking out the bird too.

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  3. Karen K. at Fireball Quilts January 12, 2013 at 2:44 am #

    I love the tree and branches. Lots of scrappy goodness!

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  4. Deb January 12, 2013 at 3:08 pm #

    I really like your bird on a branch! I found your blog from one of your comments on a giveaway post…saw the bird as your avatar and followed it here. I pinned it! You did a great job!
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    • Penny (admin) January 12, 2013 at 3:39 pm #

      Thank you! Glad you like it.

      And thanks for telling me how you got here :) interesting.

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