WOW or WIP’s 1August 2018 with Esther

Juliette to be? 

I’ve managed to machine appliquedown all the vines for my leaves and have all most 1/8th of the leaves done, they are working out to be much easier to do than I thought they were going to be?

using two different threads on the top, one dull gold for the taupe colurs and a olive green for the brighter greens. It seems to be working ?

I’m happy how quickly these borders are growing. All vines and centre flowers are appliqued down now.

Starting to join my strips on my scrappy churndash quilt top to be!

Where I stopped last night, I still have two seams to do, but I was to tired to pin any more, so made up another leaf border and placed 3 of them around the centre to see how it was looking, these borders still need to be machine appliqued down.  My table is not big enough to show the top border? It would hang over the end! But you get the idea of what it will look like, I’m so happy to see those strips almost all sewn.

This is how I work with the long stip of the border, it helps to stop the other leaves from lifting while I applique these ones down

I will have to decide on the last border when I have sewn all these pieces together and appliqued every thing down, months of sewing here for me?

Where I was at last week? My Juliette quilt to be? designed by Esther Aliu you can find her pattern on her online shop.  Nothing is ironed down or sewn yet?  I need my table for another quilt top I’m working on so I’ve packed up Juliette see below.

Back of a hexagon of Juliette, Ready for the interfacing.

Interfacing cut 1/4 of an inch smaller than hexagon so there’s not so much bulk on the seams.

I lightly crease my fabric on the centre lines to place my first 4petals and circles.

All placed ready to be ironed down

These are all the pieces to make up my Juliette. All hexagons and 1/2 hexagons appliqué pierces are  ironed down, now to find time to machine appliqué them down? There are 4 hexagons and 8 1/2 hexagons.

Ready to be stored till I can sit and machine appliqué all the applique down on Juliette

Have added a wee water feature to the right of where I sit so it’s lovely hearing the water bubbling away.

On my left is a tiny waterlilly pond with lots of tiny fish?

We have taken the railing down on the front patio, added a step below it and I’ve thrown a couple of cushions down and it’s such a lovely place to sit in the winter avo sun?  We have wide verandas around 3 sides of the house so we can find a cool spot during the hot hot summers.

Finally my tree that was almost wiped out has sprung back to life and is covered with new soft growth?

I’ve turned my Clay pots in to a hanging feature rather than plant holders after fighting the wild turkeys off for months.  They dig up all plants in seconds?