Wow, Nancy, those patterns are simply beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Course, once the snow melts, those patterns go away. Just like chalk art. And Crop circles that grow out (once the aliens go away
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Harriet, I paper-pieced the fronds at the top, one set each side of the trunk which I just cut and appliqued. The fronds made a rectangle on my sand material backing and I hand appliqued that and the trunk onto the corner of the beach. I also made a striped beach towel and appliqued that to the beach underneath the umbrella. I am doing hand applique which is easy except for juggling that huge amount of material on my lap while I'm sewing! I'm just turning the edges under and pressing first. Nothing but straight lines so far.
Right now I'm considering the sea gulls I wanted to add...all my bird patterns are different birds, and the paper pieced ones are a bit complicated. I do have a cute bird I could applique so I might do that...it's not a gull but it is a sand-type bird...after all, it's just the illusion anyway, right? The birds wouldn't be straight lines, but not complicated. Last night I got a pattern for a gull-in-flight that I think I'll quilt in the design on the sky. Now if all the scales of all these things was right...
I've been putting everything away when people come and getting it all back out...and DFamily2 are coming tonight or tomorrow morning and I will have to put away again as this is one family who doesn't know about all this yet.
Adding to my post since noone has been here yet: I appliqued 2 gull-type birds onto the sand. Had a bit of trouble with those skinny tiny beaks and they turned out a bit large, but they are grey birds and I got out my ufo embroidery and stole some dark grey for embroidered legs and black for knot "eyes". The other 2 sides of the border are on and I'm ready for final pressing and making the "sandwich".