My friend Cherri (https://www.instagram.com/cherriberi1/) enjoys entering sewing competitions and from time to time asks me to help with some designs. Recently she entered a competition to design and make a simple grey felt bag, and after some consultation with her I came up with a couple of cheerful bird and flower designs in a folk art style, that we felt would help "cut" the grim grey felt fabric that she had to work with. That kind of fabric can really suck the colour and texture out of anything embroidered and appliqueed on top of it, but in this case the colours were so bright that it actually worked quite well. A paler background might have made the final purse a bit too "loud"
The first side of the bird-and-flower bag…
…and the back of the bag
I just love how my bag turned out! Thank you Mia for sharing your digitizing and artistic talent with me!
Hi Mia, Cherri’s bag is absolutely Awesome! I love the fun, bright colored birds that you designed for her bag and the fabric that she chose for the handles and lining are a perfect complement to the designs.
Oops! for got to say I hope Cherri wins the contest that she is entering her bag in.
Wow! It’s very cheerful! And my almost 7 years old daughter loves it too! What to say? Enjoy the contest!
Love both the design and the bag. Great job to both of you. Hope she wins the contest.
What a fun bag it is so cheerfull.Thanks so much for showing it.
Gorgeous bag! And those cheerful, colorful birds look perfect on it!
It’s fantastic! A winner! Please let us know the results from the competition.
Très réussi
Mia, moi qui aime beaucoup les appliqués, je suis ravie
Merci
I especially love the back of the bag with the suggestion of movement in the “tree” and laughter in the birds.
Beautiful! Thank you! Amazing work!
Gorgeous! I just linked into Cherri’s Instagram page. Beautiful embroidered quilt.