27th June 2012 WOW or WIP’s with Esther http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com

Well it is a very miserable day out side

Range of hills around us covered in cloud

and I have a big smile on my face as it means I have to stay inside ALL day!!!!!!!!  So I will be able to finish my Forgetmenot shoulder-bag in side of bag is only pined at this stage, I stayed up to very  very early this morning as I just had to start sewing those last two seams.  I have been asked by a few how small are my stitches to whip stitch these final seams,

Whip stitching the tie gusset to the bag front needle is 1/14inches long and there are 40 stitches there. But you can use a machine. Click on photo to see more clearly

I use a number 11 needle and two threads of bottom-line thread and do 20 stitches to the inch, stitches are about 1/16 or less as you are just picking up the very edge of the silk tie gusset and the edge of the bag.

Looks like it is ready to go shopping??????? Thank you Esther for a beautiful design.

(Above design by Esther Aliu from her BOM this year

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I may even have some time to work on my felt Annabelle shoulder-bag also.

Balloons and Annabelle with Kitty; at this stage just playing nothing is sewn on. You need to check out Michele's link to see more of Annabelle. This Annabelle is off to Japan in September.

My DMS is coming to visit me today also so what more can a mother ask for.

Another of to days projects is to finish sorting buttons buttons and more buttons?????

Shirt buttons galore!!!!!!

A very dear friend emptied out her  button draw in to a plastic bag and gave it to me yesterday as she knows I have a thing about buttons and marbles. Much to my delight I found 30 tiny tiny buttons in amongst the 1000 roughly shirt buttons!!!! (Pat’s hubby used to wear dress shirts and when they were no longer wearable she would remove the buttons and use the shirts as cleaning rags!!!!!) I need these tiny tiny buttons  for my Annabelle blocks, they are like dolls buttons and we do not have a supplier up here of these dolls buttons, so that is another problem solved for me.  So if any of you have a supply you don’t want any more I’m willing to swap Japanese silk fabrics for them.

Here is a creepy crawly

About 6inchs long!!!!! Not the kind I want inside!!!!!!

that was caught by his barb feet on our front door  fly-screen last week. I placed a towel over him and removed him to a tree in the garden. He was not aggressive.

Garden is just toooo wet for photo’s this week?????

To join in with other quilters pop over to Esther’s blog each Wednesday and link up as well if you want to. .

Now 10.30pm and I have just added the last stitch to my shoulder-bag!!!!!!!!

Completed!!!!!!!

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Cheers for now happy stitching Glenda.

glenda_jean@bigpond.com

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