This is my Cardinal wallhanging that I did using your A Cardinal window designs. My 9 year old granddaughter requested a cardinal picture for her room because her elementary school mascot is a cardinal. I’ve stitched this design several times & framed it but decided to try a wallhanging for her.
First, I fused the black fairy frost “frame” onto the red fairy frost background. I stitched the blocks on white fairy frost then fused them onto the background using strips of fairy frost in white for the “window” frame. I sandwiched it with quilter’s fleece for batting & a black backing. Then I used free motion stippling around the red part with machine blanket stitching around the black frame & all of the white strips. Edges are bound with black fairy frost bias binding. There are triangles mounted withe binding at the corners in back that hold thin balsa strips horizontally across the top & bottom to keep it lying flat & taut. I chose this method because I know her little hands will be all over it & it’ll need laundering at some point. There’s also a label on the back with the name of the design, BFC as designer and my name as stitcher with the date. It mounts to the wall with the Command velcro strips balsa wood.
Pictures don’t show the sparkle of the fairy frost through the embroidery stitches very well, but it really turned out well & she loved it. Thanks so much for the designs & the contest!
