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 ...