Okay, so I wasn't happy with this at all. I wasn't happy with the color I chose for one of the chickens. It was too busy and dark, which made it difficult to see the eye of the chicken. And I couldn't make the rick rack work either. For one thing, it was too big. I needed to be using the smallest rick rack. So I scrapped the whole thing and started over, sans rick rack. I decided to embroider stems, and then I thought it needed leaves on the stems, so I made some. I much happier with it now.
I have a long ways to go. I need to stitch around all the applique pieces and it has two borders as well. Not to mention the quilting. I'll post again when it's all finished. Between now and then, here it is.
The whole piece
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Close up of the flower stems and leaves
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