Part 2 Revealed!!

Part 2
of the
Birds of a Feather Mystery Sampler
is now
on it's way
to your local needlework shops...
members
should be getting it
very soon-like!

(lovely frame by Valley House Primitives)

During the design process of this piece
I was contemplating what kind of birds shall they be.
Robins, cardinals, sparrows?
As I sat and pondered this
I had a child-hood memory
pop into my head.

When I was just a young girl...
probably 8 or 9 years old
my piano lessons
included songs from the musical
"The King & I".
My favorite song was,
"Whistle a Happy Tune"
I had it memorized...
It was while I would play this song in the summer time,
that the notes would carry out through the old screen door,
into our tree-lined front yard,
and be heard by our summer-time guests...
the indigo buntings.

I'd play this song
and the male bunting
would sit in the tree
and sing his little heart out.

I played for him
and
he sang for me...
we were quite the duet!

My mother had me convinced
it was the song that made the bird sing...
now that I think about it,
it may have just been Mom's way
to get me to practice
my music lessons.
Either way, it worked!

The following summer
we moved 5 miles away to a "new" farm...
never to hear or see another indigo bunting again,
until this spring...
some 40 plus years later.

Earlier this spring,
I was sitting in my kitchen taking pictures
of the Rose Breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore orioles
when I saw these two tiny little blue-colored birds.
It is an unmistakable brilliant
and iridescent blue...
a sight you don't forget!

It had been years...
I was shaking with excitement
and was able to shoot a couple of pictures
before they flew off.
There were no more sightings,
but I did hear them in the yard for a few weeks...
I had not forgotten their song.
Made me want to play the piano again...
how I wished I had that old sheet music!!
So in the meantime,
I'm on the hunt for the sheet music...
just because.

I found it to be such a coincidence,
since the birds in the "Birds of a Feather" sampler
had been stitched
earlier this spring
to look like the little indigo bunting
that serenaded me
so many many years ago
in that
old farmhouse
through it's
old screen door.

It made me think
of a line
from movie,
Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner...
"If you build it,
they will come".

Only,
my story line
goes something like this...
If you stitch it,
they will come!"

The sampler
now has found
a special spot
in my
heart & home
and
reminds me of these fond
child-hood memories
and the return
of
the
indigo bunting...

With thy Needle & Thread,
Brenda