I had great ideas for this, but I'm not certain the final product meets my original expectations. I ended up making a cute little peacock quilt:
I have a friend who makes fairy wings (On Gossamer Wings is the name of her company) and in the process of making the wings she ends up with piles of little glittered circles. She has collected these for me, which I in turn used to create the tail of my peacock:
I wish that I had centered the body of the bird and moved it more towards the bottom of the quilt. I had quilted the background before I started adding the circles and when I finished the tail, I determined that the bottom just seemed blah, so I added some cut out flowers around the feet. Here is a shot of the tail in progress:
The body is made of velvet and I used a couple of circles combined to make the eye:
Oh, and I now recall that I don't want to work with glitter again because it ended up ALL OVER the studio and in the crevices of my sewing machine.
I feel your pain! on occasion I sew old fur coats into teddy bears and spend days and days spitting out fur and cleaning the machines out! BUT - your end result here is lovely! so colorful - love it! Worth the effort!
ReplyDeleteYou'll have peacock glitter making cameo appearances in all of your quilts for the next year!
ReplyDeleteI love the cutesie vibe of kitsch and the excess of the glitter/circles!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweetheart your peacock is. You'll eventually get rid of the mess. As 'they' say.....lesson learned.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great use for someone else' leftovers. A cutesy kitschy peacock.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful peacock and how lucky to have a friend with all those precut pieces. This really was a wonderful way to use them. And of course a peacock is one of the ultimate kitschy birds. Good call.
ReplyDeleteCool idea to make a peacock with your leftovers. As for the glitter, well I guess you have to try everything once but it was worth it for your bird.
ReplyDeleteI adore Peacocks -- and this quilt. Clever use for those circles!!
ReplyDeleteLove it!! And I do understand the glitter problem...if you remember, glitter was not a big part to art when you were growing up!!1
ReplyDelete