WIP Wednesday - Basset Hound Wall hanging

You know when you have lots on your to do list, like finishing that quilt that's been hanging around since last year, taking off a border on another because you've changed your mind, darning a hole in a sweater and cleaning the bathroom, but you decide to ignore all that and do something just a bit more fun?

I decided to try this project I'd picked from Annie's Scrap Happy Quilting.  It involves stitching the outline of an elephant with a running stitch and using scraps backed with fusible web.  First, iron them onto the background leaving 1/8" to 1/4" between them and then stitch down afterwards.  I think it looks like a really fun project so last week, I pulled some Kona Snow for a background and instead of an elephant, I traced a Basset Hound shape (I hope you can see the outline ok - orange perle cotton on white is hard to photograph in winter lighting!) 

I had great fun trying to sketch Wilbur and though I was happy with his head I struggled with his body.  So I looked up Basset Hound silhouette and found lots of images to use for inspiration. 

I'm going to use scraps I have left over from this quilt I made in 2012 (this is my very first proper quilt made doing Whipstitch's e-course). 

I think the warm mustards, reds, pinks and browns are very Basset friendly and Wilbur our Basset is a Tri-colour so he has quite a bit of black in him that I think will be cool with blue!

Let's hope I do him justice.  Somehow I don't think he'll mind either way.

 

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