Morning All, our wet season has finally left us and we are now having beautiful sunny clear days around 26C but our morning are to nippy for me down to 10C this morning, I was rugged up like a polar bear till 10am LOL. This morning as soon as I finish my blog Im going to play on my machine appliqueing dragonflies, Ive wanted to make these for two weeks so I will be having lots of fun. I write my blog to link with Esther on a Wednesday and share there with others on what we have done through the week or doing on a Wednesday.
Some one asked me how I drew my leaves, well I don’t I copy them straight from The pattern I’m working on usually.
Here you can see how I have sliced up the leaf , I place this over my fabric I want to use for a leaf and use a pencil to draw the outer shape then gently lift the pieces of paper I have partly sliced through and mark the veins in to.
Leaf shape is ironed down on to my backing fabric if you are needle turning same principle applied but it is stitched down.
I stitch draw in the veins with my sewing machine. This stitch is one stitch forward one back one forward so really shows the veins.
Then I use my buttonhole applqiue stitch around the leaf shape.
I have been working constantly on a beautiful design for the last few weeks and promised my self not to touch any other sewing till I reached a certain stage on it!!!!!! I reached that stage last nigh Yippppppyyyyyyyy . So last night I pulled out my Dragonfly Tree quilt top to appliqué some more Dragonflies down so far I only have one appliquéd down???
6 more Dragonflies just waiting for me to bring them to life?
I finished my first of 4 Red and Green blocks, after appliqueing and padding nearly 200 grapes I’m still enjoying making those little red circles LOL But after another 1500 plus I might not be LOL
Red grapes and more red grapes LOL.
in my garden this morning.
These a little local weed that just keeps popping up and giving good ground coverage and tiny splashes of colour .
Airroots hanging down which I cut off two metres every month.
Plucked my ginger during the week and have a lovely wee crop.
My cat is having a hard life, termites found her and started eating her, have moved her and hope she survives?
Self sewn and all ways gives a lovely splash of colour.
Beautiful.
My fishermen have both lost their fishing rods will have to make them new ones LOL
So lovely to see green grass at the base of the steps and not dry weeds?
IF I look hard enough I will find some colour in the garden
THis cactus is throwing babies on the end of all the old leaves nature is so cleaver, before these old leaves die they give birth to new life?
CLose up of the baby plant.
same plant but younger ones but still giving life to new plants.
Im sitting out side in a chair on the patio writing this as it’s warmer than inside, I’m rugged up and this is my view in front of my chair
Very peaceful and quiet. Well it was LOL some one has started chainsawing and they have started up a chipper LOL. So it’s no longer quiet!
I’m off now to link up on Esther’s WOW or WIP’s
Thanks so much for dropping in and commenting, I do enjoy hearing from you and chatting back to you. Cheers Glenda who is cold and its 18C LOL
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