Plovers and waves

Plovers are a somewhat popular motif in Japanese folk crafts. For my guild's challenge quilt this year - "Duck Duck Goose, a Fowl Challenge" -  I used some strips of tenugui* featuring the little sea birds.

 I decided to enter the challenge just last week, and so I was working against the clock but still wanted to create something homespun and handmade.  

Naturally the sea birds needed some sashiko waves...

I used varigated sashiko thread:

And then I just started playing around with flying geese... 

Settled on larger geese against a fishnet tenugui background.   

 

Meanwhile.... 

Here's Daisy promising not to eat our cabinetry.  She's just over a year old now and we are catching glimpses of the great dog she will become. ;).  For the past couple weeks I've been saying "I think we've turned the corner with Daisy."  But she's still not allowed in the kitchen unattended!

* What is tenugui anyway?  I wrote more about it in my previous blogspot (A Quilter By Night) but here in a nutshell:  

tenugui - a Japanese woven, hand-dyed cotton towel.  They are traditionally used by people who work with their hands - carpenters, chefs, gardeners, etc.  Long and narrow, they can be worn as headbands or neck scarves, or used as hand towels.