Sheep Wannabees is complete!
Finally, I finished the Sheep Wannabees quilt, with a few hours to spare. The application and photos needed to be uploaded to Road2CA by October 1, 2010. The quilt is about 69" square and weighs a ton since it is all wool fabrics and roving, with pearl cotton embroidery threads. All the animals are fused appliques and felted. On the border some of the appliques are 3-D: the coleus, the butterflies, and the dogwood flowers. Some of the animals have 3-D ears or tails. I started this quilt with the sheep in December 2009, and then branched out to other critters because I was trying to show people that you don't need to limit yourself to sheep when working with wool. Any subject will work, it doesn't even need to be limited to furry critters. I am planning on exploring lizards and fish in felting and using the sewing machine to draw the scales. The Crazy Sheep quilt, which came before this one is a true crazy quilt. I started this quilt to see what sheep loo