Daily Bird Becomes a Doorway Project

I did not make a bird today but I did go to my fiber group and ate at a cool lunch restaurant.  Fig and Prosciutto crepes with cardamom latte coffee.  I wanted to live there and have them cook for me forever!

I had my hair redded and got Frank's Christmas present installed into his truck.  A CD player that included a whole new radio, phone interface, Sirius connection and a new face plate to hold it in the dashboard.

So basically the $400 radio turned into a $1000 project.   But he has a CD player in his truck and he is happy.  Did you know they are no longer putting CD players into vehicles.......I  guess all the millennials are getting their music through Pandora and their phones and iPods.

So......no bird so far.  Maybe later tonight.  and I guess I need to make 3 or 4.

But I do have a set of modern quilt books I picked up the at the library, where Judy dropped me off to meet Frank when I realized I had left my phone in the car he took home. 

At Fiber Group I showed my doorways.

Did I show you these before?  I can't remember.

I did them using a new technique I found.  Print through the ink jet printer using freezer paper and burnishing the print on to fabric.

I m still working on the technique and the possibilities.

Here is one I printed in color.  Group members made some suggestions for the next steps.

I have wax crayons I can test to enhance the colors.  Judy gave me some tips on how to use them. 

I can use markers to darken lines and make them more distinct.

Use digital grounds to prepare the fabric prior to the burnishing.

here is a black and white doorway.

Love the lines and the possibilities here.

Can't wait to get some time to work on these.

I have Sawyer for the next two days.  Maybe I can catch some doorway/bird time during nap time....NOT......I need to make extra birds for sure.

Deep South SNOW?

On a roll after the Sawyer Bird, I thought I would make a DiNozzo Bird.   DiNozzo is basically brown with white points.  That means he has white feets.  This bird has white dots.

I searched for a set of McGee fabrics.  But I wasn't happy with whatever I was coming up with. 

DiNozzo is a basset hound, so this bird has really short legs.  Here he is next to Long Tall Sally.









I decided to make a second bird because I didn't know that I would have time to do one today.  This
baby was green.  I don't know what he was patterned after, I just liked the scrap of batik leaves I found in the scrap bin.

See his knobby knees!  And he is a left facing bird.....wait, right facing bird.  LOL.

You have no idea how difficult it is to do something sdrawkcab.   That is backwards if you hadn't figured that out.

So I guess he is a Drawkcab Bird......

In my bag from the Modern Guild Show And Tell Lotto winnings there was this tiny stack of fabrics.  See the name on the package?

I spent a bit of time last night making half square triangles for the blank areas in the bird blocks.

I have to show you that photo tomorrow.

Meanwhile, it is going to snow tomorrow.  Here.  In Baton Rouge.  Last snowfall was 4.5 inches in 2008.  The whole city is shut down and we are acting like this is the end of the world.

And I hit upon something for my doorway piece.  Remember that for tomorrow.