I’ve been rather lost for applique ideas on the last border
and opted to go with stems and leaves, printed and fuzzy cut from fabric. I don’t think it looks too bad.
I started the quilting and found the centre panel extremely
satisfying to do seeing that I could simply outline the pictures and just added
some cloud shapes at the top. For the
border I used a technique I read about on another blog where the quilter traced
a quilting motif onto Glad Press ‘n Seal, stuck this to the fabric and stitched
through it. Although removing the
plastic afterwards was a major pain, it did give me the result I hoped
for. One should just remember to keep
your stitch lengths extremely short otherwise these might pull when removing
the press ‘n seal.
We are looking after our almost 6 month old grandson while
mom and dad took our granddaughter to the Disney on Ice show in a another city,
so I don’t think any quilting will take place this weekend.
I had the two younger ones yesterday. I didn't get any sewing done all day. I felt like crap this morning, but sewed some this afternoon. Smaller stitches do wrk better when taking paper of any kind off of stitched pieces. Chris
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