TADA!!! Meet my pear

See what I found in our garden:


A real pear! Did it grow there? Naaah, I made it for the Blackbird Designs exchange!! So glad with the result, really. It has now found a welcoming, warm home at Barbara's.
I used a Tilda pattern from the book "Home Sweet Home" - I love Tilda designs (and of course, she's Norwegian), though I am not a real "Tilda addict" as her fans call themselves. Don't really like the lady dolls - just like with Prairie Schooler, I am in the minority, it's not the Santas I like most (but the flora and fauna-related charts). Anyways, I am showing the original to the right - I like Barbara's more, hehehe! But this is where I got the idea.
The pear is not difficult at all to construct - but I have to admit it doesn't look like a pear at all till it receives a stem and a leaf (which I made but forgot to send). I chose to add a piece of wood from the garden, thicker, which I cut to the right proportions - and it looked fantastic.
The next step was to sew the BD design, the crow from "Souvenirs of Summer" onto it. I stitched it one over one but I am totally unsure of the count of the fabric, maybe 36ct? Really don't know. I am so hopeless at remembering such details that I need to check a close-up - did I use Lakeside Linens or R&R? Oh I'm so bad at those details.
Hah! I even bought the same Tilda fabric on a trip accross the border to Sweden. H. did the food shopping while I grazed in the Panduro shop.
I was not so happy with my sewing on the pear but Barbara is gentle on me and doesn't pick on the details :)
Two wooden buttons and the trick was done.

I was also delighted that the post service was so fast - sent on Wednesday in Norway, received in Holland on Friday!

And here's the bottom... these threads make the pear look even more "real"... but it's hard to see it on the picture.

I'll be back later with more to show.... but now I need to return to packing. I'm leaving Norway on Monday... sad, sad, sad days as I pack, sort, clean and enjoy every moment with the cat-boys! :)
We want to do as much at home as possible today so we can enjoy at least half a Sunday outdoor somewhere.