Mark Hearld revisited

On those really hot days, I don't mind sewing, but I am not keen on getting out the iron to press seams and so on.  But I felt the urge to be creative and had been pondering another play with the Mark Hearld inspired fabric pictures we had explored last year.  I had in the voluminous stash a piece of feather shape patterns, set in a strict pattern with space around each, and though I could use them in some way.  A search through Mark's book didnot help much with "birds" that would fit this fabric.  The best possibility I could see was a turkey.

 So off I went ... but my feathers were just not very turkey, and that odd shaped beak looked like a raindrop (or worse) when it was in a solid fabric.  Hot and cranky, I was ready to give up, then decided that I didn't actually NEED to copy one of Mark's images, I COULD do something original. And really, my feathers were more like a peacock's.  Mark doesn't "do" peacocks as best I can tell.  So here is my peacock picture.  It's a bit more stylistic that Mark's animals I think, but all my own work and it does make my feather fabric work.  And I got to use the offcuts from the other "old to new" quilt as part of the garden.

And then, because I was on a roll I actually completed the other two"Mark" pictures which had been floating around my work space and cupboards for a few months.

I think I am going to give these to Sister #2.  She has been admiring the others I gave to Sister #3 and I don't want her to feel left out.  But I am not sure how she might want to use them, so in the interim I just put a simple calico border around the edge of each.  Tah dah! Let me know if you want to see them in person before I give them away.