WOW or WIP’s is over on Esther’s blog for this week again!
Hello All where ever you are or what ever you are doing I hope it’s fun. This week past has mostly been fun after last week? I started my wee houses for Esther Aliu’s BOM Hold On To Your Heart on Sunday avo and have managed a little more each day. It’s so lovely to be back sewing on the machine, I never thought I’d say that, but with Jenny’s help I have learnt to love my machine and to machine applique. This week I’m sharing how I’m building my wee houses on my HOTYH for new applique Quilters. I hope it helps some of you? I first made my little house, I was having so much fun making it I forgot to take photos.
Starting to build my wee houses?
I wanted a pink and blue house that reminds me of the lovely memories I have of the South of France and Italy.
Slowly they grow.
These wee house s are twice as big as I thought they were so much easier to make.
Love how the nestle in the green leaves.
Finally I have two wee houses beside each other
Placing my wee houses on to my centre fabric.
So lovely to see these wee houses in there place of HOTYH.
Love my wee houses. Thank you Esther.
All my pieces are just laid there not fussed on yet? I iron down a piece then applique it down, humidity is so high and I use a very light weight fussing so the pieces just fall off with all the twisting and turning. If you press iron fussing to often it goes hard so be careful about pressing you applique pieces to often.
I started by ironing down my blue house first. Then machine appliqued all the otter edges. I have a light weight interfacing behind my backing fabric centre.
My perimator of the wee house all appliqued down and starting on my shutters. These shutters remind me of opening my bedroom shutters early in the morning in Italy to hear the church bells ring out at 6am . What a lovely memory.
JbbEndless threads as I use lots of different coloured threads so have to constantly stop and start?
I’ve just spent 1 hr pulling the shutter and window threads through to the back and weaving them in the back? Still another 2030 mins need to do the top left window.
Close up of one of the wee windows and shutters, the little bottom frame is 1/8 wide? I stitched a very tiny straight stitch out and back in dark maroon for each shutter line. These wee shutters are 1 1/2 inch’s by 1 inch !
Starting to add my leaves this is the fun parting seeing it grow in to a wee picture.
My stems are in a deep maroon in feather stitch, it is the smallest stitch I could make it
It’s starting to look so sweet! But ohh those endless threads to pull through again LOL
Threads be gone so I can see down more leaves. I pulled them through last night 1 1/2 hrs!
II wove all these threads through last night. So I won’t get any tangling to day when I do a double blanket stitch around some of the leaves.
Update 6pm
I managed to do the edges of 12 wee leaves in blanket stitch and attCh 7 more leaves by using feather stitch for there veins. Now 2 1/2 hrs of pulling threads to the back and securing them down?
Up date nearly 5pm. out in the garden is very little colour, but what is there is so intense. 
Im going to add my link to Esther’s WOW or WIP’s now and will go for a walk around the garden and see if I can find any thing to share this week. Thanks for dropping by I do enjoy chatting with. Cheers Glenda
The little houses are so cute! I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. As usual, your flowers are vivid colors, beautiful! Happy Stitching!
what a lot of work the machine applique looks!! so many tiny details. You must have a large table where you can leave all this sit and have nothing to disturb it when you are taking breaks!
The houses are fabulous!
Hi Angela, these wee houses were fun to make, I was going to do paper foundation as I thought they were much smaller, but I hadd fun just cutting out the fabric from Iron on fussing scrap pieces and building them. Biggest challenge was finding the fabric for the house it self, I wanted a blue and a pink house these were my favourite houses when colouring as a child LOL Cheers Glenda
Lovely work Glenda, the houses are great!! Always enjoy the colour in your garden.
Thanks so much Linda, now need to machine applique my wee pink house on to my centre of HOTYH. But I have to do a little more applique on my WIL they are only 1/2 applqiued down. I Started appliqueing down my wee birds to day and hope to get them finished to day, they are only tiny but very slow stitching as I need to move the fabric nearly every stitch or second stitch?????? Hope you are not to cold way down there in the South, as its been cold up here even>???? Cheers Glenda
Hi Linda and thanks for stopping by, its all ways so nice to see familiar names pop up here and I then like to drop in on them? Having fun making those wee houses come alive, but they ahve been put on hold till the builders finish down stairs, to much dust around. It must have been so so cold down your way all most snow as its been so cold here this week. Cheers Glenda
Yes some very fine stitching there on those teensy pieces. It’s cold but that’s our winter, still needing rain so I hope it comes too. Cheers to you as well Glenda. Linda xx