Pretty as a (Finished) Peacock

I really like this piece.  It was fun to work on and pretty to look at.

I just had a few more patterns to finish it. Here’s the branch.

 

It’s small, but this vine with leaves was the most difficult part of the whole thing. The leaves have only a few full stitches, and a lot of compensating.  The vine is made up of random crosses.  Random is harder than it looks!

All that was left was the beak and eye.

Here’s the finished peacock, and the peacock next to the pheasants. These are Tanja Berlin designs and the kits are available on her web site, if you are interested.