Slow Stitching Chickadee Collage Textile Art - Full Process

Welcome. Join me Start to Finish as I create a chestnut-backed chickadee small art quilt in fabric and thread. Feel free to stitch along with me! There’s loads of detail and insight into my thought process and practice. See the Chapter timestamps below so you can hop around. 1:15 Creating the Collage 5:23 Choosing Embroidery Floss 6:20 Basting 6:49 Stitching Plan / Best Practice 16:25 First Stitches on Chickadee 21:53 Problem Solving: Knots 30:50 Bird Eye and Beak 31:52 Getting Into Small Details 34:49 Adding to the Collage 38:21 Problem Solving: Preventing Distortion 39:00 Stitching and Mark Making 42:40 More Stitching on the Bird 43:00 Adding Tiny Bits of Collage 45:27 More Stitching: Moving Around the Piece 49:58 Adding a Border 52:20 Chestnut Stitching on the Bird 53:10 Adding a New Colour 54:55 Closing thoughts about the Process (with Close Ups) If you like imperfect, no rules, no stress making and creating, this