The first owl

Cherri has been asking me for a while now to do some owls for a quilt she’s planning. She needs nine of them, and at first I thought it would be difficult to draw so many different owls. However once I got started on them they went surprisingly fast, and I’ve now got round to digitising them. And they are huge fun to do. For a start, I love the serious expressions on their faces, which really make me laugh. And then the stitching is very complicated, with many overlapping layers of stitching of different densities. This can be challenging to work out but all the same is fun to do. And because of their complexity, these designs take a long time to digitise. I’ve only done three so far, and here’s a stitchout of one of them

The first version of the first owl

It’s just a first version, and like all first versions there are things that are wrong. As usual, I’ve got the colours wrong (they should be darker) and then the various layers of stitching need a bit of tweaking to increase their effect, but all the same I quite like it and am looking forward to doing the others

Comments

[Cherri]

He is perfect! I think he will look great in a quilt with all of them together. Can't wait to see all nine. As usual, Mia has captured the spirit of the bird!
Good Job!