It's finished. It probably is hard to see what makes this finished as opposed to the WIP photo. The copper stitching around the outside is done, holding on a piece of leather on the back, sandwiching the feathers. Working with feathers...is an unpleasant experience at best, particularly when mixed with Elmer's Extreme extra-strength glue. The extra strength glue is much less runny and stickier than their school grade glue (my favorite for leather working since it allows for some adjusting by wetting the leather if I need to change something after the piece is dry), so it is ideal for feathers. The real problem is the feathers, which I have been getting online, since feathers are an animal product so quality control is always fun. Feathers also have a direction they prefer to curve so I have to take that into consideration. Added all together, it made for an interesting experience.

I am extremely happy with it, particularly for a first finished piece with feathers. I had started a piece prior to this with feathers (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24240213/) that I was having problems with. Somewhere along the line of working on this, I realized what I needed a piece on the back to support the feathers. I ended up using a piece of Ostrich leather, of which I have a lot and it is really thin and light.