3/4s of the way through Feb and I’ve not got very far on my UFOs but thriving on two new desighns LOL. Every now and then a design will pull you in and you stop doing every thing else to do them?! But the last two years 5 of Esther Aliu designs have pulled me in LOL. This year the centre of Morning Glory tugged at my heart strings, then the centre of Queens Garden, I thought I’ll just make the centre of QG but here I am not able to stop working on it, I go to sleep thinking about and I wake up and go straight to the design table to look at the next block??!, As a moderator we have access to the full pattern and Jenny and I are both working on it and not able to stop LOL. This week I have only been working on QG, and adding more tiny cherries to Morning Glory Centre.
I’m using a bolt of Kimono fabric for my backing but it is only just over 15 inchs wide so had to come up with a plan to make my centre square larger? I ended up using a yellow spacer. None of this is sewn down the first border is just lying against my centre.
all waiting to be ironed down.
I used two rulers to get a perfect1/4 inch either side of my petals befor eironing them down.
All ironed down waiting to be machine appliquéd down.
How I make my black back ground fabric, I slice through my template fold one side abck and mark with a fine chalk pen, then retape the template and do another stem the same way till they are all marked.
Same thing, I find this a quick and easy way to mark simple designs like this.
you can see the lines here, they brush off easy.
stems ironed down
leaves added
Making up the flowers on my teflon sheet. Id be lost with out it, it saves me so much time and you can see the pattern so clearly under it.
Flowers not ironed down will add these after I have machine appliquéd down the stems and flowers.
I couldn’t stop there and started another block?
I’m going to try and not use just pink tones in this quilt!!!! I like them so much I keep pulling them. Going to try a blue block?
SO far so good LOL.
Close up of the centre flower. I have added a piece of blue silk to the dark blue centre petal as it was to dark!
I’m happy with that!
what a difference a few wee dots make? Nothing is ironed down except the stems.
Machine appliquéd the stems down first.
Close up, right hand sid eof the stems are red and the left yellow it gives a round look to the stems I think????? Plus gives more light to the centre of the block.
Adding my first flower.
Fabric I used for the flowers was some light weight upholstery fabric but it was not a good choice it frayed even with the irononfussing, to over come this problem I machine appliquéd it down twice to get rid of the fuzzy edges!
finally finished the big flower head but had to machine appliqué the other two flowers twice also.
Its turned out to be so pretty in blue, well I like it LOL
All completed except to applqiue the wee dots down.
Last night I cut out the main flower for another block and this morning found some fabric for the stems?!
Using some kimono fabric for this block, this is from the same fabric just fussy cut one circle from the green part and a yellow one from the yellow area.
Using silk fabric from the blouse I never wear???? for the stems
Have finished this block and another ready to machine appliqué but will show you those next week! Just a small peek at the next one tooLOL
Start of the last block of 4
No garden photos there were to many Mosquitos today to wander around taking photos will. Take some early tomorrow may be and add them.
Off to link with Esther on her WOW or WIp’s.
Thanks for visiting and leaving your own blog so I can visit you. Cheers Glenda
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