WOW or WIP’s with Esther 7th March 2018 Queens Garden block 1

I see I have missed several weeks, two I missed as I had a fall and hit my head on the concrete path, now heads are not that hard and a visit to the hospital and 8 days none stop sleeping stole two blogs from me LOL.  I’m fine now and trying to catch up with visiting your blogs,  looking at stunning blocks members are doing with Esther Aliu’s beautiful 2018 designs and trying to squeeze in some machine appliqué to.

When block 1 of Queens Garden First came out I prepped it straight away, but did not appliqué it down so this week it was all about finishing this lovely block!

As I had used 3 different fabrics with the leaves I thought I’d have to use different threads for each fabric change but no the same blue green variegated thread worked on them all.  Was a big surprise and a good lesson in test first.   I should have machine appliquéd the stems down first before adding the leaves it would of saved a lot of starting and stopping but i was so excited to get it moving I forgot LOL

Thinking I needed to change the threads for this leave fabric but no I used the darker fabric not these lighter ones and it worked well.

Most of the leaves down and the gold thread appliququed to the left of all the stems only.

trying out that light but bright pink to make my blooms more cup like, they looked to flat and bleed in to the dark fabric on the top petal?  I think it will work?

So have added one to each of the blooms.

Right hand bloom completely appliquéd down not 2 more to g and I’m finsihed !Taken in day light, difficult to photograph as it is raining out side during the day so dark and over caste and when the sun comes out lots of glare!!!!!and night light changes the silks

Block finished. Interesting how it looks so different with a ddifferent back ground around the finished block?  

My centre and first block of Queens Garden.

Last night my hubby, son, and grandson carried down a new sewing worktable desk to my sewing area what joy to have a real sewing table, for years Ive just sewn on tables and old desks or planks of wood LOL  If you wait long enough it comes LOL

New sewing cabinet! It has drop down sides and 3 large shelves, wonderful.  

No garden photo’s to many leeches and mosquitos to walk around and take them, every thing is so water logged and soggy so not a great deal to show this time of the year which is the monsoon wet season.  we have a cyclone forming up off he coast that may come down around this time next week, if we are lucky it will stay out to sea.

No creepy crawlies either LOL   Esther you will be glad about that.

Thank you all for dropping by and hope to catch up again next week. Off to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s now Cheers Glenda