I’m excited to announce that Birds of Beebe Woods is currently on display at Eight Cousins Bookshop (199 Main St. location) in my hometown of Falmouth, MA, on Cape Cod. The original framed piece will be there through the end of August, so if you’re coming to town this summer, please stop in for a visit.

After its stay in the bookshop, the Birds will go to Lowell, MA, where it will be included in my upcoming exhibition at the New England Quilt Museum.
Works by Salley Mavor: To Every Season will be on view Sept. 9 – Dec. 27, 2025.

I was inspired to create the piece a dozen years ago while wandering through Beebe Woods, which is located a mile from the bookshop, at the top of Highfield Drive in Falmouth.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK: Birds of Beebe Woods was made in 2012 for a fiber art exhibit celebrating the beloved forest in my home town of Falmouth, Massachusetts. I wanted to feature wildlife as well as convey the natural wooded environment in Beebe Woods. I chose to portray birds, making them realistic enough to be recognized, but patterned and abstracted in a way that made them fun to stitch. I started with a simple sketch  and then got to work on the woodsy border, with its felt-covered wire filigree stage curtains. The crow came next and then the other birds common to our area of New England, making a dozen total. Listed clock-wise, they are female cardinal, nuthatch, black-throated green warbler, male cardinal, wren, downy woodpecker, blue-jay, robin, goldfinch, cedar waxwing, American crow and chickadee. I hand stitched the entire piece, using my unique blend of techniques and working methods. 

ARCHIVES: To see posts about the making of the birds in the piece, go to these links: crow here, goldfinch, nuthatch and chickadee here, blue jay here, cedar waxwing here, cardinals here, robin here, wren here.

The original framed piece is not for sale, so that it’s available to show in public exhibitions. The next best thing to seeing it in person is to get the poster in my Etsy shop. Puzzles, notebooks, note cards, and bookmarks are also available.

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