Piecing for background done by just cutting and sewing fabric strips together and then cutting them up and sewing again and again. Idea was to capture look of a camera being focused on bird with background blurred - which is the way the source photo looked. Birds body is pieced from dupioni silk and then painted with Caran D'Ache crayons. The quilting uses 60 weight for the bird and background and 12 weight to denote the flying feathers off the silk stems.
