I spy a little black hen looking at you! I just love this little guy. What a goofy face. Do you want to see the rest of him?
He looks like a pear! (Well...perhaps I shouldn't laugh. I look vaguely pear-like these days, too.)
I wanted to show you a little bit more of my doodle-y machine quilting. Click on the picture to see better detail. On this one, I doodle/quilted in some single flower motifs in red. I used a turquoise thread to make the flower "petals" on the egg flowers. Then I re-threaded my machine with orangey-yellow variegated thread and filled in the rest with more doodles. To make things interesting, I used a few different fill patterns, including my famous "flaming vine with doodle berries" in the border. That's difficult to see in this picture, unless you click on it to see the enlarged version. I wish I had taken a better picture before I sent it off.
Here's the whole quilt. It was long and skinny, so it was difficult to take a picture of.
The entire piece was machine pieced, machine appliqued, and machine quilted. The pattern is from Lisa Bergene's book
19 comments:
Hi Lisa! I love this quilt! I´ve bought two Lisa Bergene´s books too. I can hardly wait to sew some of those items I´ve seen in her books!!! I think hen is a very good motif for many kind of handcrafts!
Sunny weather here. Perfect for skiing cross-country!
how did you know I had a crush on chicken? your hens are so pretty! I should take Lise's book and make me some too....a really good idea for the easter decoration with some eggs or chicks
Live long and prosper-lol
I love these chicks - they just make you laugh to look at them. That's a happy bit of work, and your doodling is great!!!
How cute! I love it! Your quilting goes so well, too. Whimsical quilts are soooo fun. :o)
i hate to give up your secrets lisa but you are about as pair shared as an orange...you have a wonderous hour glass sort of figure and you hide it beautifully which i never quite understood...gee hope it doesnt sound like i am lusty after you girlfriend, it is just the truth...lisa is one fine looking gal under her baggy shirts and stuff.
these are cute chickens, not my fav bird cause they totally ruined our yard in kekaha. here we dont have wild chickens but wild turkeys but at least they dont scratch and did up the yard...they are pretty kool. i love the quilting and colors. i love your stuff lisa.
I like your quilting! What a cute quilt.
I have that book and that pattern is one of the reasons that I bought the book! Of course, I haven't made it yet. On my 'to do' list!!! Love the quilting!
Adorable! I'm still trying to fathom how you machine quilt with the feed dogs up, really fast. It looks great, Lisa.
The chicken is so funky! Just the way I like them! I also was inspired by your quilting. Very nice job! You, my friend, have given me some great ideas in the quilting department!
I'm still going strong on the no sugar-flour thing! How about you? I did respond back but I may have screwed up when I sent it? What a dork I am!!! I'll check in on you tomorrow!
LOVE your quirky chickens, and thanks for the visual details on the quilting.
The doilies? My word - I'm not a crocheter but like you, have marveled at the complexity of starting with plain ole string!
Those chickens are just too adorable! While I'm not a chicken fan, I can certainly appreciate the workmanship and the whimsy! Send some sun our way...still cold and rainy - 7 inches of rain so far since yesterday...flood conditons!
I'll say it again, your work is fabulous. I sure wish I had the motivation to try quilting, even if it's just a small sampler of some kind. Maybe one day. Until then, I shall live vicariously through all your lovely quilts. Aloha!
Oh Lisa, I love your three little hens, very cute. Great bright colours.
What a cutie!
Those are awesome!! I love the little hens. :)
How cute! And I so adore you quilting.
LOL, there are so many things that will be done before I tackle anything like a teapot doily, too! Oh, you do make me laugh!
I love your chicken quilt! You are such an inspiration!
I think that somehow I did something weird when I tried to leave my email addy the other day. I am now subscribed to the comments on your String Theory post. Um, tis nice to have a link to your blog come in my email, but um... not quite what I was trying to do, lol... so anyhow, until I get a blog set up, here is my addy.
dreambit1 @ gmail . com
And yanno, take out the spaces--they're only there to keep the spam-crawlers from catching me... now isn't that something when spam crawls faster than I do, and I have to defeat it by subterfuge? *wink*
Love the cute little pear shaped fella's. LOL they are so cute!! Looks beautiful there as usual.
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