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10-11-2015, 11:14 PM

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Dragonfly summer

Sorry, the wings don't show up well in the photos. My doc asked for a dragonfly wall hanging. This has given me more trouble than quilts most do. The pattern is my own. I did this QAYG. The cattails are hand sewn, but after that, the scene was sewn by machine, through the whole quilt sandwich, wings last. I got a picture of a dragonfly from a coloring page website, but altered it somewhat.

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10-11-2015, 11:21 PM

OhCanada

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Beautiful! Great design, love your saturated colors as well

10-12-2015, 12:12 AM

Monale

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Beautiful wall hanging! Love how you embroidered the wings of the dragon fly!

10-12-2015, 03:36 AM

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nicely done, great design

10-12-2015, 04:29 AM

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Love it!!! Real dragonflies have transparent wings, so you did very well!

10-12-2015, 04:36 AM

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Very pretty!

10-12-2015, 04:37 AM

cjackaitlin

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Love it, like how the wings are transparent. Thanks for sharing.

10-12-2015, 05:09 AM

ManiacQuilter2

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This came out very beautiful. I am sure he will enjoy this quilt.

10-12-2015, 09:04 AM

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Thank you. This quilt was a struggle, as I tried to match techniques to my mental images. The legs and the tops of the cattails are hand embroidered, but I used machine blanket stitch for the leaves and a straight metallic thread stitches for the wings. My DH insisted that I needed to add eyes, so they are hand embroidered with metallic machine thread. Now that I have the techniques figured out, DH wants something similar, but with a red dragonfly.