Birdwatchers Project #1

It’s starting! First month’s pattern is…..

The Common Loon!

Scrap containment units

My fabric kit arrived Wednesday, so I spent Thursday night organizing fabric into individual baggies by color (to help contain the forthcoming scraps, in theory) 

and Friday night printing and pre-folding the 20-ish pattern pieces so I could start sewing today. 

The first of several color oopsies 

So how’s it going? Sloooooooowly.

That’s better… 

A couple of fabrics are very close in color and I keep grabbing the wrong one, not realizing the oopsie until I’ve sewn several pattern pieces together as a unit. 

Such a PITA to rip those tiny stitches out.

But progress is being made. I’m hoping to have this done before we leave next Saturday. (This morning I thought I’d have it finished this weekend. Hahahahahahahahahaha!)

Head isn’t perfect but after ripping it 4 times… finished us better than perfect ☹️

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck… it could be a loon…

Note to self: set stitch length at 1.4 rather than 1.2 so you stand a fighting chance when ripppppppppping.