All most completed centre of Morning Glory on Monday night 12th March 2018
Writing my blog a day early as I may not be here tomorrow ????
Its been a week of working on making berries for a red and green quilt top I want to make, it has been on my bucket list for around 20 years LOL Finally saw one Nancy had made and that was it. Then finishing off my Morning Glory centre and adding the last stitches to block 2 of Queens Garden.
Making up part 3 of Queens Garden
where do I start? usually with making my flowers up in to a complete unit on my Teflon sheet.
making making up my stems and appliqueing them down first, then adding the flowers
My black back ground was showing through my flowers to much, so I cut out roughly a shape in light weight iron on interfacing and placed it behind the flower and it was the answer.
I was not happy with my main stem it looked to heavy for the flowers so added a decorative stitch down the middle of it and it changed it completely.
Coming together love this design so simple but oh so elegant.
Love it!!!!
In this close up you can see the stitch I did around the yellow centre makes it look like pollen? Plus the stitch I did in the stem.
Close up of the stitches.
Showing that the back ground is not black but a very dark navy with a teal influence.
Now on to Morning Glory this week.
My bird was made up of fine silk to fine in the end to use as is, so I have ironed it on to some fine iron on interfacing?
Then ironed that interfacing and the bird to some iron on fusing and then cut the wee bird out and she is now quiet stable and should wear well.
There she is waiting to be appliqued down.
a small flower left side machine appliquéd down and the right waiting to be down, showing this so you can see the stitch I’m using and the difference once appliquéd?
White petals appliquéd in pale pale mauve and the coloured petals on this one in a light mauve.
My wee bird is finally finished, my machine played up no end with the new top thread I was using, then remembered what Wendy at the Bernina shop said to me Saturday morning use the same thread top and bottom if you are having a problem with a new thread????? it worked a treat.
Finally all most completed, I’m not going to add the rest of the the BOM blocks to this centre I’m stopping here as I want this to hang as a small quilt .
In the garden this morning ?
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Look closely and you will see tiny dots on the back of the fern leaves, they are the seeds about to be dropped .
Below Bromalaide
Below Close up of the seeds
Fronds that came down down in the wind, I pick up an average of 5 a day 
Below a small heliconia
Below heliconia stunning blooms but only last about 1 week.
Stunning yellow heliconia
Mini toadstools growing on the out side of the hanging basket first time I’ve seen these in 20 years?
Below lichen
Below forgotten it’s name very slow growing here.
Heliconia
Below Heliconia
After weeks of rain then to full days of sun and a gentle breeze to dry things out flowers have popped out every where.
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Cheers Glenda
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