A Bird in the Hand

As the slow process of decluttering and destashing progresses, I come across materials that I'd forgotten about.

Today's foray brought up some scrim and a vintage broken necklace with white beads, and some scraps of cheesecloth that I'd dyed with diluted acrylic paint.

I put them all together and stitched them on a piece of Italian linen.

Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown