Time to gather...

While driving home

through the countryside

last week

I saw this...

So I snapped a pic

and made

a mental note to myself (more on that later).

Can it be?

Already?

Are the birds

really starting

to congregate?

Nature's hint

that autumn

is just one more flip

of a calendar page away...

After a long summer

of raising two nest full of little ones

they probably have much to catch up on...

don't you suppose?

They are probably chirping about the weather,

nest building,

size of their clutch,

bugs,

worms,

the long flight south

&

even the 4 letter word... CATS.

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I continued on my merry way home

with that mental note flitting around in my head...

I pulled in the garage,

shut the door,

went in the house

and immediately got my sketch pad out.

I began to sketch a row of birds on a line...

I needed to capture

that imagine in cloth & thread.

BUT

things always don't transfer from mind to paper as we wish...

After some erasing, the high line wire turned into a pretty little wire fence...

A fun

little place for birds

to gather,

don't you think?

The sketch was then transferred onto weavers cloth and then it was onto color planning. TAA DAA...a new design was created on a country road, in my car, on the way home...and that is how I roll along folks!!

Watch for new punch needle & wool applique patterns coming soon!

With thy Needle & Thread,

Brenda