Saturday, September 13, 2008

Booby Fling

Maybe these are coming in advance of a colder than usual winter here in Georgia? The birdy bodies are vintage damasks from my recent sugar dyed batch. When this one is finished, it's going to be for sale. I have to start making all this needle flailing pay somehow. Until then, I can look up on the design wall and have a chuckle over this silly gathering. There was a show on TV last night about a lioness who kept adopting gazelle calves. She was cub-less and confused. It did not turn out well. This bunch look as if they would try to hatch rocks as easily as they would eggs. You can't imagine what I went through to find a nice picture of the Boobies they were modeled after! Addendum - the border came out wonderful but I used another whole damask tablecloth to back this one and , due to the shifty nature of the stuff, it's proved impossible to hand stitch. Rather than machine stitch it, I'm going to take it apart and reback it with the plain muslin that has been so successful thus far. Live and learn.

7 comments:

jude said...

well you sure have done the fling thing. my my.

Lorie McCown said...

really lovely, your birds are just great!

Unknown said...

I LOVE these birds!They have personalities!
Hellenne Vermillion

Melly Testa said...

I l-o-v-e what you are doing!

Nellie's Needles said...

loooove them! What fun!

Julie Zaccone Stiller said...

For such simple basic shapes your boobys have such great individual expressions!

Natalya Khorover Aikens said...

these are so fun! love 'em!