Applique Chicken - LIzzie Wall June Meeting 2024

 A flock of chicken [See below] arrived at our meeting yesterday accompanied by their creator Lizzie Wall.  They were every colour and pattern imaginable and immediately members were drawn to them,  wondering what colours and patterns they were going to use because Lizzie had been invited to show us how to make one and we were eager to start.

Each of us was given an envelope containing a pattern, bondaweb and some support material.

Lizzie advised us to choose our materials from a wonderful array of patterned fabric supplied by her and then cut the pieces out and apply to the main body in the following order;

1 body

2 breast

3 tail 

4 face, comb, beak, eye, legs

Applying with bondaweb, and lots of "Which way up does this go?" the pieces were stuck to the body.

Slowly chickens began to emerge and the patterned fabrics began to look like feathers.

Once the basic chicken shape had been made, members set about embellishing the tail with shapes cut from brightly coloured fabrics  resembling feather shapes. Colourful, fantastically feathered tails began to emerge.

By the end of the afternoon another flock of chickens had been made and members took them home to finish little bits and pieces and to apply stitch. It was a good fun day and our thanks go to Lizzie for inspiring us and providing us with all the necessary fabrics.

We are looking forward to seeing the finished chickens.