Actual Creativity = Enjoyment

I did it! I was finally creative again. OK, so I didn't do something original out of my own imagination, but I didn't follow the directions in the magazine. So it counts as being creative.

The TreasureArtTrends Yahoo group decided to do the Poetry Birds that were featured in the current issue of Sew Somerset. It's a 2 for 2 swap, so I made 3 in order to have one of my own birds. Mine was the experiemental one where I tried out what I thought I wanted to do. The quilting stitching isn't nice on the back because my tension was off. I adjusted it before working on the others.

I used Pelmet Vilene as a base and cut a front and a back of each piece so that it is sort of two-sided. For the pattern, I just sketched the bird shape out on a piece of deli-wrap paper. Once cut, I sprayed the vilene with 505 spray to hold the fronts and backs on until I could stitch them on the machine. The fabric is all from the remnant bin at JoAnn's.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake