What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Due to time blindness, I forgot until the week before August Investiture that I'd planned to make a cloak to replace a friend's that was lost.  And I wanted to appliqué a Pelican, a type of needlework I've never done before.

A mutual friend donated some white wool as the only white in my stash is handkerchief linen for undergarments.  I printed the design off heraldicart.org, which was adapted by another mutual, and used that as a stencil to cut out the main pieces.

I turned under the edges of the brown wool since unlike the grey and the white, it would ravel, and couched brown wool with matching DMC cotton embroidery thread around it.

As mentioned above, I don't work with a lot of white, but had some darning wool that worked well for blanket stitching the pelican onto the grey and couching grey gobelin wool details atop the white.

The beaks are leaf (or is it stem?  I can never remember which is which) stitch in yellow embroidery wool.  All of the details were free hand, which is obvious by how the chicks ended up leaning towards the left.  No drops of blood because I have personal reservations against that specific imagery when it comes to service.

I plan to add more details in the car on the way to Investiture, particularly in the nest, and hoping to do so in a way that mitigates the fold line in the white that would not iron out no matter what I did.

It's not exactly pretty, but it's warm as heck and will be pretty obvious if someone ends up with it by accident.