For Quilt Jam #3, I wanted to create a landscape quilt with a red-tailed hawk flying up above ...
Here's a detail of the hawk, done with a simple fusible applique and free-motion stitching over the top to hold it in place--with a few extensions of stitching for the wings. I am very pleased with the way the bird came out! I was dragging my feet on that because I didn't want to mess it up, but it worked out marvelously!
It's actually probably more accurately a silhouette of an osprey (aka fish eagle) with the proximity to the water. But it still gets at the same meaning in the song. ;-)
There are a few songs this scene describes for me:
A) "Red-tailed hawk sailing down the canyon ..." from the song "Before I Go" by John Hiatt.
Lyrics here. Because it's another John Hiatt song, I can add it to the Stolen Moments Series, too!
This song always reminded me of my dear friend Sandy, a budding naturalist, who owned a canyon of her own at one time. She died far too young. This song came out shortly after she died unexpectedly, and it felt like this song was her talking to me from the great beyond ... telling me she was ok, and not to worry. Sigh!
B) Hawksong by Shawn Mullins. Lyrics here. An oldie but a goodie!
I used this tutorial to make the landscape background. It is similar to the Pat Bishop workshop from last fall.
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