It seems I have lost a Month some how as it’s a month since I blogged?
I have decided to make the border for LA. Love Always! by Esther Aliu. It was one of her 2018 BOM’s. Looking at using silks for the background I have a roll of Kimono fabric, just hope there is enough? It’s a light blue that faces across the width of the fabric to all most a soft pale pale grey, fabric is only 14inchs wide., the same width of the border?
My roll of kimono fabric and some silk fabrics I may use, all have iron on fusing behind them ready for cutting out to make the blooms and buds.
Going to use the Press’n Seal cling wrap to make the blooms, I will applique the pieces down by machine using a double blanket stitch.
First I number all the pieces starting with the pieces I will add first. I’ve printed my design on orange paper as we had run out of white paper!?
Tracing all my pieces on to the Press’nSeal using a fine permanent ink pen and have numbered them, this is important when some shapes are similar.
Cut out roughly
My cut out pieces cut with smooth lines and ready to be ironed down using a teflon none stick ironing sheet over the bloom .
Added my top pieces and those bottom pieces first then added the rest. I pinned the pieces in place. Behind the printed paper is a mini ironing board.
Rest Pined ready to be ironed down over top of the first 4 pieces
I’ve pressed the cut out press’nSeal pieces Ive removed from the shapes to the other 1/2 of the teflon I may be able to use them twice if I’m lucky?
Irioned bloom peeled off teflon and placed on the backing fabric. Make sure you let that bloom go real cold before peeling off the teflon or you will pull the pieces out of shape?
Now to make 11 more LOL. They will all be a little different depending what fabrics I use ?
Pin my garden or really my main house entrance this week, a little wee Sunbird built her nest?
It started with pieces of garden vegetation
She attached the pieces to our Christmas lights hanging in front of our entrance that were to come down that day???
She flew in and out from dawn till dusk for 6 days?
Here she is forming the entrance???
Carrying a huge mouth full to line her nest.
So so busy
Checking me out?! after one day she was not worried I was taking photos one metre from her.
Again checking me out before going to the nest.
She has gone now looking for a mate, if she finds him she will come back usually around 1 week to lay her eggs?
One glorious Dawn I stood and watched it in awe for 20 mins.
A beautiful moth found on the veranda floor one morning
Dawn breaking one morning
Sun filtering down through the canopy
Sun trying to break through the mist yesterday, it managed to peer through one hole and send a beam down ?
Off to link with Esther on her WOW or WIP’s
Thanks for visiting and sorry I was not able to blog for so long but Family, Christmas, and New Year filled every room of the house for the last 4 weeks it was wonderful. Cheers Glenda.
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