The sunflower has always been one of my favourites. And I have a picture book in which its cover features a sunflower girl standing on top of a building which I like a lot. So when I started learning quilling, one pattern that I look for is sunflowers. I even bought a canvas (if you remembered in my earlier post) so that someday I could quill sunflowers on it. And that was the thought until I saw this quill pattern by Diane Crane
the Sunflower Girl!
So, I was experimenting this over last weekend and the results....
The girl doesn't have a face expression because of the big hole in the center of the coil (I don't know how to use a needle tool yet).
I sticked her onto an old frame which held a postcard of Ven. Master Hsing-Yun and four guidelines of Fo Guang people that inspire me a lot:
So, I was experimenting this over last weekend and the results....
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You're doing wonderfully for a beginner! Keep up the great work and enjoy it. Thanks for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeleteLovely quilled dolls.The same book inspired me to make this: http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com/2011/06/quilled-sunflower-girl.html
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