blue wren progress

I made some progress yesterday on my blue wren (Sandra Leichner’s Wren block, but with my own blue wren instead of her brown one). Not a great deal of progress, because other things got in the way yesterday, but some!

It’s a little hard to tell what much of it is. The long bit sticking out the lower side of the bird is not a leg – it’s a branch! In time it will all start to come together. That background is actually green. Not that you’d know it from my dreadful photo!

On occasions I can see that my technique is improving, and then it goes back to being pretty awful. You’re not supposed to be able to see any of the stitches at all. I’m not very good at that yet. 🙂

Just so you know, this is a complete detour from what I’m working on for my next book. It is completely unrelated. This is for personal interest only, and I have no plans to design any appliqué projects in the near future. It’s just something I’d been wanting to learn.