My Name Is Lucy

Seems like my creativity has slipped into a seasonal mood, following my recent posting of the King of Spring!  This sweet, lovely Leonberger's AKC name is "Early Winters Autumn Leaves" - and her 'call' name is Lucy.  She's one of my grandpuppies, and certainly a photogenic, happy, and loving animal.  This cheery, happy "Leo" loves to play soccer and swim for hours.  Leonberger paws are webbed between their toes, making them an ideal search and rescue animal [particularly water-rescue].  They love their human families with a passion, and are so easy to love back.  They are a large breed German 'mountain dog', created in the 1800s by crossing the Great Pyrenees, Newfoundland, and St. Bernard breeds. 
 
The cotton background is a red and gold sun print of blowing autumn leaves.  I topped that with a smaller ink-jet photo print on organza of Lucy, attached with Misty Fuse.  The background quilting is straight parallel lines, a pattern introduced by Laura and Linda Kemshall of Gr. Britain.  After all the quilting was completed, I overlaid the organza print with a second photo print on cotton that I cut out around Lucy's image.  After 'gluing' it down on top of the identical organza image, I discovered I have a 3-D image that has her practically leaping off the background!  [My daughter takes wonderful photos of both of their Leos; I'll have to create something of their young male, Ellis, in the near future.] 

I outline-quilted around the edges of the leaves - which made them pop up after the close background quilting, rather like trapunto.  The narrow border is a fall-colors plaid-like cotton print that reflected all of the colors in the 'picture.'  Lucy's coat is red and gold and brown, a perfect autumn leaf in her own right.

I'm looking forward to seeing which of the two remaining seasons might pique my next creative mood!