This Australia Day long weekend, I drew and paper pieced my third kangaroo. These are the only three kangaroos that I can ever imagine paper piecing. These are for a quilt for my sister's husband. I still have to make a black labrador (Fred) applique for the quilt, as Fred wants to chase kangaroos when he goes for a walk in Canberra's suburbs, but can't catch them.
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| Kangaroo one |
I found a fantastic program on the web, where you can import a picture and split it up for either normal piecing or paper piecing, using straight lines. You can also number the pieces, just for paper piecing. It is called Quilt Assistant and is available here:
http://www.cosman.nl/software_en.html
I copied a picture from the web to create Kangaroo one.
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| Kangaroo two |
Kangaroo two resulted from me cutting up kangaroo one, shifting body parts around and then drawing in the gaps. I used quilt assistant to do up the piecing lines. This one didn't have enough contrast, so I had to outline the kangaroo with brown zig zag stitches
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| Today's kangaroo |
Kangaroo three was based on the pattern from this site
http://adventurousquilter.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/my-kangaroo-pattern-free-in-craftsy.html, but again, I put a drawing in Quilt assistant and made a similar patter with fewer pieces.
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| All together |
While they are all different styles, I like them together.
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