Today is the first quarterly reveal of 2024 for The Endeavourers and our theme, this time, was Patterns in Nature.

I expected I would do something inspired by our English countryside but nothing jumped out at me and then, looking through my photos for inspiration, I chanced upon the Lesser Adjutant, who you may have met in my post, Fabulous Birds and Amazing Animals…

Once upon a time in those halcyon days before the pandemic, I went to Sri Lanka with Mr RH and two of our sons to go to a wedding that included a church service, a buddhist ceremony (where traditional dancers/acrobats fetched first the groom then the bride) and a reception with the biggest chandeliers I’ve ever seen, a banquet and dancing into the early hours. The other guests wore saris in all colours and gold bangles and it really was exactly like falling into a scene from a fairytale…

On that same trip, in Wilpattu National Park, I took a photo of this chap, who also seems like he would be at home in a fairy tale.

And I knew one day he (she?) would appear in a quilt – but this is not that quilt.

I ended up selecting/making patterns using shapes cropped from my image of this striking creature and the bird itself remains waiting to be immortalised in stitches on some other occasion.

I hope you will visit The Endeavourers and see what everyone else has made for this theme :)

Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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