  I have done so many stitches on mum’s quilt that it is getting difficult to think of stitches that I haven’t done so need to look for ideas…I starte by flipping through my visual journal and found this little diagram from the TAST Week 11 which was Up and down buttonhole stitch I liked the second sketch and made a seam from it.
I then pulled out Butterflies which was my second quilt…I was looking for something with a natural feel so that it would blend with the chooks at the bottom, I found the seam done with the purple thread which worked well…As for the chooks, I started with grand ideas of a whole chook pen seam, modified my ideas after I tried drawing it, I was then going to have the chook with scraps of food to peck through and I painted a fish skeleton charm to be part of the scraps but when it came to the crunch the space was to small to fit enough other scraps to disguise…so I modified my ideas again and left it at the chook and a couple of chicken charms…and
  
The penultimate block is finished
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