WOW or WIPs with Esther. 22 August 2018

We have been having very  cold but beautiful sunrises the last week .

A beautiful 100% wool old afgan Im repairing, those squares are only 2 1/2 inches square!!!!  and in fine 2 ply wool?????

I’m appliqueing the wee flowers as I get to the next strip, so to start I just had to applique 2 wee blocks all by machine to join the first 6 rows starting from this corner.

I’m sewing the strips in to pairs then in to 4s then will join this on to my corner piece?

Slowly she grows

Playing with 1 1/2 inch squares

And I made a tiny quilt top?

Which became a heart?

Then I wanted a card!  I can not find cards to go with these Healing Hearts that I feel is right so decided to make my own out of fabric?  So I pulled a lovely piece of fabric and started playing as I’d decided to make a border perse card? I cut out a flower, then a bud and finally a butterfly and fussed on some irononfussing, I cut out my shapes I’d choosen and placed them on the cardboard and ironed it all down? it worked like a treat .

I added two antenna’s and some wee legs with a fine marker pen. So now I ended up with a hand made fabric card and a Healing Heart? They are now ready to be posted tomorrow.  Im just so glad I don’t need these healing Hearts myself.

Here is a card I made earlier in the week to go out with a Healing Heart, I cut this heart out of fabric and stitched it down with my sewing machine worked like a treat.

When I first saw this I thought it was a painting???

TThen when I picked it up and realised it was long and short stitch I was amazed at the craftmenship.

IT is increadiablel to think this has all been done by hand and some how ended up in a second had shop?

TThese threads are no thicker than the threads

Jjust look at those rocks????  Every  time I look at this piece of art I’m spellbound by the work that went in to making it. it is roughly 18inchs by 13 inches.