Introducing my Portrait of a Panamanian Parrot! This guy is my challenge piece for the KVQG Annual Quilt Show and I am extremely pleased with how he turned out. The theme for the 2012 KVQG show is"It's a Small World" and the challenge isan 8.5" by 10.5" piece that represented a country. To get a country you picked out of a hat. Just so happened that I picked Panama and a girl I taught with 10 years ago had just returned from Panama on her March break trip. I asked her if she had any neat pictures that I could use and this is the one she sent me (she is a fantastic photographer!):
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| A real Panamanian Parrot! |
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| Thought I'd show a side by side comparison. |
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| Shona's photo. |
Here are a few close ups of my quilted piece:
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| You can see the Angelina fibres in this photo. I tried to leave enough open space in the bottom feathers so that you could really see the fibres. |
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| I love the bright colours of this guy! |
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| Tried to get one to show the bamboo background. |
