I think the 15th of the month is a very exciting day for many of us Quilters who follow Esther Aliu’s stunning quilt designs. I loved waking up early on the 15th and first thing was open Esther’s BOM group hoping the next part of the BOM was uploaded??? To day is the 15th and the excitement of you all downloading and printing off the pattern will have started as many of you received the pattern early?
This is the start of my 4th block of Wrapt in Love released to day , my huge bloom started off a small rose about 1/3 of the finished flower, I cut petals and more petals till it was the size of the bloom in the pattern, a real borderier Perse rose. My candy cane stem is made from men’s shirt fabric cut on the cross and run through a bias maker? It has been machine appliquéd down. I made my thorns from a 1 inch red square of fabric fold in 1/2 twice point to point ? then the raw edge tucked under the stem. Some people call them Prairie Points?
I started making up my 4th block last night at 7pm and cut and cut till midnight . Only the main stem is sewn down and I did that a couple of days ago. Now I need to iron down my mushroom lights; remove every thing else but the stems and start machine appliqueing it all Down?
last week I made my 3rd Block of WIL I used press’n Seal it’s a cling wrap, to draft my pattern. This is roughly how I made my block up?
Cling wrap is laid on top of pattern and then with a fine permanent marker I draw the pattern to the cling wrap!
Cling wrap pressed down on the pattern? I made my curved swirls much fat, it made it so much easier to machine applique them down, and that extra fabric will not show when I add the wee birds and circle eggs?
cling wrap is smoothed on to my fabric that I want to use (which has iron-on-fussing behind it as I’m doing raw-edge applique)
Here is my left side swirls cut out with the iron-on-fussing paper removed.
Now they have been ironed on to my background fabric.
ready to be machine appliqued down.
I only iron down what I’m going to work on, as the pieces get rubbed to much if every thing is ironed down with all the twisting and turning you have to do when machine appliqueing, then they start lifting and falling off, so just take photos of how you liked your lay out remove every thing but the pieces you are working from and start appliqueing.
checking swirls for size of circles I will need?
Looking at how that left side will look?
love the little birds?
Then finally it’s all in place and ready to be sewn down?
I now have 2 waiting to be appliqued down now and number 4 started?
now to machine appliqueing the block down. I start by machine appliqueing the centre stem. Then the two side ones.
Starting to applique down my stems first.
These yellow stems remind me of Disneyland Eels LOL I’m going to add eyes to them????
Procrastinating over which coloured thread to use on the swirls, aqua or gold, I ended up using both Gold on the top of the swirls and aqua on the bottom ones!!!
You can see the gold thread on the top swirls and the bottom aqua, the colour of the fabric makes the threads change colour? and the gold on top makes like the sun is hitting the tops?
I started making up my block last night at 7pm and cut and cut till midnight . Only the main stem is sewn down and I did that a couple of days ago. Now I need to iron down my mushroom lights remove every thing else but the stems and start machine appliqueing it all Down?
My centre 4 blocks of Wrapt in Love
whats in the garden today?
I Have small creatures tucked in funny places in my garden for my Grandies to find? Notice
Notice the eatten leaves? It makes one wonder how they can chew through the leaf in the centre of it?
Look closely, she hiding under her web, yes it’s a gunnel web spider not some thing I like finding but we have a lot of them here?
Bbeautiful birds nest fern?
CColurs are so lovely on this local weed but it’s a menice it covers every thing so quickly and kills it?
This is a dead flower head from a palm tree above, this flower is around 7 feet long?
NNature helping make the end of the swimming pool like lush cool and beautiful?
hows that for Colour?
Beeries dropping means their is a large pigeon or parrot in the tree above?
Can you spot the cat?
Thank you for visiting and thank you All for getting this far reading my blog LOL. I’m off to link with Esther now. Happy sewing if you enjoy doing it. Cheers Glenda.
I always enjoy visiting your gardens, so lush and green. We have green here now but so very different from your greens. You’re doing such a great job with your machine applique, just beautiful! Happy Stitching!
Garden is very very lush from 5 months of monsoon rain Gretchen, but very little colour which I miss. So I make up for the lack of garden colour by putting it in to my quilts and appliqué LOL. especially my Wrapt in Love centre blocks LOL. I just do’t know what I will do next it just happens !!!! I now need to learn to quilt? There are so many of my quilt tops that are waiting inline to be quilted????? Cheers Glenda.
I love the black background with those bright flowers that is a very pretty quilt! always love seeing the variety of plants in the garden
Dear Glenda
Those little birds are pure genius. Just enjoy how creative you get using the fabric at your disposal. Machine applique makes the project much quicker to do and it is much easier on the hands. Thank you for all the beautiful pictures from your garden.
Gorgeous work!
Just loving your WIL blocks Glenda. I am mulling over colours to use- I am very conservative usually but feel this pattern is like fantasy and needs those fun and vibrant fabrics. So appreciate the way you share!
Wow, Glenda — your WIL is phenomenal! I love the tiny birds and the mixture of different techniques, broderie perse bloom and machine stitching and tiny prairie point thorns, and your colors are delightful!
Hi Rebecca it’s 2weeks over due this message, but life this year has not been mine, family and life have needed me more than normal. So glad you like my WIL. I t is making me smile a lot when I get to work on her. My darling HOTYH has been sitting in the background feeling very neglected, but yesterday she was back on my work tables, now to find time to work on her? Hugs Glenda from Down Under?
Everything you do is so intricate! Gorgeous work.:)
Thanks Audrey, but the designs of these are not mine, I’m just playing with Esther’s beautiful designs. It’s a while since I did a design of my own? I must admit the more intricate they are the more I like the challenges? HOTYH is going to throw me some challenges making that pineapple alone LOL. I have been making some Dear Jane blocks to have a break away from intricate pieces and what do I do choose a intricate block LOL. Cheers Glenda
Hi Audrey SO lovely to hear from you. Esther’s BOM for 2019 Hold On To Your Heart is a very intricate and beautiful desing. Each part of this design is a work of art, and could be framed on it’s own and would look beautiful. Mine is growing slowly as I’m with out my applique machine at present. Hopefully I will ahve one in 10 days time???? My pile machine applqiue is getting awfully high LOL Thanks for dropping by. Hugs Glenda