Saturday, January 8, 2011

Continuing work on the birds

Tonight I decided to relax and work on the birds some more.

Did I say relax? 

I'm working on the wings tonight.  And, I'm writing an entry because I need a break from doing the detail work.  It is fun, but my shoulders are tense.

Each of the little wrens have a total of six wings (three per side) and the tail.  Each wing needs to be stitched with the batting, turned inside out, hand sewn closed, and then quilted. 

Sounds easy, right?

The wings are small:


And, trying to turn small wings inside out was a bit more difficult than I had imagined.


I borrowed some tools from Geff that have quickly become my favorite tools for this task:

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