Happy St. Davids Day - Needlefelt Style

Happy St. Davids Day from Port Talbot - Wales

 This is the third of my contemporary quilt challenge quilts.

And being March's I thought a daffodil most appropriate.

AND

With it being St. Davids Day today (1st March)

St. David is a patron Saint. of Wales

AND

The Daffodil is our National Flower

You'll see lots of these worn in Wales today.

If you see someone with a daffodil on elsewhere in the world on 1st March

Chances are they are Welsh and showing their Welsh pride. 

Anyway

I digress

This is another project using my new needlefelting machine.

I cut out the daffodil shapes in felt 

and needlefelted them onto the back of the black felt background

to create a 'painterly' effect on the front. 

I then freemotion stitched around the outlines

and

into the leaves and flower

I stitched a grided 'nine patch' effect

and then stitched around the edge using yellow thread and a zig zag stitch.

I had intended finishing the edges with a self binding

coming over from the back of the work

BUT

Preferred the look of seeing the yellow zig zag stitch.

I was going to ask you all which you preferred

BUT

I just screamed at me YELLOW ZIG ZAG SHOWING PLEASE

AND

SEW

Yellow zig zag showing it is

(with  a hind of pink backing peeking through and cut with pinking scissors)