I am so excited to try my hand at some real appliqué work. Tried my first appliqués recently, and they turned out great. So I have a big elaborate plan to do a fabric wall art piece featuring a chicken, of course… a rooster to be exact.
I plan on quilting a background that I laid out and will paper-piece together. Then I’m going to appliqué the rooster over the top using all sorts of colored fabrics.
I have it laid out in Illustrator, and if it turns out well I’ll be able to turn it into a pattern for others to use. No real details for the head yet… I don’t know if it will all be done with thread, or if I will use different fabrics
I’ve already spent numerous hours figuring out the patchwork pattern for the background and creating the tail feathers. I have a feeling it may take some serious time to complete, since I can’t work on it all the time. I’ll try to post pics as I go along ~ I really hope to have it done in a couple months!
It looks pretty cool as an illustration too ~ so we may be seeing this image again… maybe as a super cool screen print!