Jungle Songs

The color of the month for this is dark green. I thought it was evident until Elizabeth asked me what color fabric I used:) The birds are auto machine embroidered onto felt and then cut out as patches. The leaves were all stamped on 3 different green fabrics with Lumiere green paint in 2 greens. I thought they looked too much the same value so the plan was to do a little free motion thread sketching on each leaf. Obviously little is a relative term. The stitching on the leaves took me 3 days. All of the leaves are double sided and many of them are bent to show dimension, which of course the picture doesn't show.The new technique I tried for this challenge was making cords on the machine--they are the vines. The inspiration for the entire piece was a set of palm leaf coaster napkins. I used one as the pattern for the 5 green felt leaves that I free motion stitched.