Let The People Choose - Birds

I always forget to do this SAL on the first Saturday of each month.  I only remember when I start seeing everyone else do their blog post.

Thank you Jo at Serendipitous Stitching for hosting this SAL each month.  

Next month's theme is Spring.

I didn’t think I had stitched that many bird projects until I went through my list of finished projects.  I actually have 18 projects with a bird in them.  I won't show them all because you have seen some recently.  I will list them all but only show some of them in photos.

Garden Goose stitched way back in 1997 and I have never shown a photo before.  My mother-in-law had dishes with geese on them and she was collecting geese figurines for awhile, so I stitched this for her.

 

Red Tailed Hawk was stitched in 2001 for my oldest son Jaspar.  It still hangs in his bedroom (in our house).

Backyard Birds Pillow was stitched in 2005 for my sister-in-law Olivette.  She likes birds and nature.  I made it into a pillow for her.

Four Seasons Birds which I stitched in 2011 for my husband Dave.  It hangs in our upstairs hallway.

Hummingbird Biscornu was also stitched in 2011.  I just loved the colours.

Rainbow Bridge was also stitched in 2011 for myself.  It is a tribute to all of our pets.  I added a few budgies to the project because Dave & I had 5 before we had children.

In 2015 I participated in a Summer Exchange.  I made this Welcome Pillow which has a blue bird on it.

Other projects you have already seen on my blog.

I stitched the Green Flip-its, which has a bird in the part called Keep Our Air Clean. 

I have stitched the following Just Nan 3D miniature birds and owls which you have seen photos before.

Birds

Cardinal Tweet (x2) & Blue Jay

Bluebird Tweet & Rosebud Tweet

Owls

Oakley Owl & Little Princess Snow

Let The People Choose - Fire I showed everyone the Dragon Dreams phoenix ornament, and the beautiful phoenix from Not Forgotten which I used on the SYOA Harry Potter project.

I am off to see what others have stitched for the bird theme.

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #8

This morning I completed the clock, fixed most of the border and started to back stitch around the logo. I will leave the brown for now and finish the yellow letters.

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #7

Last night I made great progress on the letters and found my mistake.  After stitching the yellow in the letter “i” in Animal I discovered that the brown didn’t line up with the side of the clock above.  As you can see I had to frog the light beige (543) outline at the top and move it over to the left one space. That is why I’m off by one space on the right side of the logo.  This also means that I really should be moving the tag at the top.  I’ve be thinking of frogging it anyway and recharting it to have more detail now that the Animal Crossing letters are all backstitched.  The tag should have straight edges around it.  I think I will finish moving the brown border around the logo and backstitch it and fill in the clock before finishing the last 2 letters.  I will also frog the tag.  I’ll wait to restitch the tag after doing everything else.

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #6

I stitched all of the letter “A”, but still need to backstitch around it.

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #5

 Last night I finally finished one word "Crossing".  What a pain the "g" was to stitch.  I don't know how many times I had to frog before getting it correct.  I'm not sure where I lost a stitch, but when I got to the end I was one short from the border.  Maybe I made the border one stitch too big.  I will leave it until I finish the top word and see if the border is off or my counting inside.  Then I'll make the correction or just add the extra stitches.

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #4

Last night I stitched some more letters, I’m almost finished the bottom word.

On Saturday, I created a pattern to share with the Facebook Group.  The pattern is Jolly Redd’s logo that shows up on your map when he visits (randomly throughout the month).  The logo appears on the secret beach (my secret beach is the sandy beach underneath the letter “C” in Crossing.  Unfortunately, I had already started stitching the Animal Crossing Logo above my beach and with the fractional stitches, I was definitely not frogging if I didn’t need to.  I am thinking of just adding the logo somewhere in the water area near my island to look like Jolly Redd is arriving or has just left.  

This is what it looks like on a map (mot my island, this was found online so I could create the logo).

This is what Jolly Redd looks like in the game.  He seems kind of sketchy.  It is supposed to represent someone selling you stuff on the black market (not that I would know about that), but I have seen M*A*S*H on TV.

Here you can see he puts up anchor on your secret beach.  The icon/logo on his flag is the same one above on the map.

This is how dark and creepy it looks inside when you go to look at the art pieces.  I think it is dark so you can’t see the imperfections in the fake art.  The art is based on real art, just altered to make them fake.  When you donate the real art, you can go and read all about the item. (Artist, date, title, etc). It is very educational.

He sells are work to us so we can donate them to our museum.  But he doesn’t always bring real art, sometimes it is fake.  Sometimes it is very obvious it is a fake painting.  The fake painting has eyebrows.

I always double check online to see which painting or statue is the real one, because you can only buy one art piece from Jolly Redd per day (that is why I have 4 characters in case I have to buy all 4 art.  He has 4 art each visit.  Sometimes they are all real, sometimes they are all fake and sometimes a mix. I can only donate real art pieces to the museum.  One of the goals in the game is to complete your museum (80 fish, 80 bugs, 40 sea creatures, 73 dinosaur fossils, 43 art pieces).  I have all of the fish, bugs and fossils.

Well that is your lesson for today. :)

Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing Logo - update #3

Last night I completed a few more letters.  It is slow going, but I love how the letters look.