WOW or WIP’s with Esther 15th May 2019

This is the start of my 4th block of Wrapt in Love released to day , my huge bloom started off a small rose about 1/3 of the finished flower, I cut petals and more petals till it was the size of the bloom in the pattern, a real borderier Perse rose. My candy cane stem is made from men’s shirt fabric cut on the cross and run through a bias maker? It has been machine appliquéd down. I made my thorns from a 1 inch red square of fabric fold in 1/2 twice point to point ?  then the raw edge tucked under the stem.  Some people call them Prairie Points?

I started making up my 4th block last night at 7pm and cut and cut till midnight . Only the main stem is sewn down and I did that a couple of days ago. Now I need to iron down my mushroom lights; remove every thing else but the stems and start machine appliqueing it all Down?

Cling wrap is laid on top of pattern and then with a fine permanent marker I draw the pattern to the cling wrap!

Cling wrap pressed down on the pattern? I made my curved swirls much fat, it made it so much easier to machine applique them down, and that extra fabric will not show when I add the wee birds and circle eggs?

cling wrap is smoothed on to my fabric that I want to use (which has iron-on-fussing behind it as I’m doing raw-edge applique)

Here is my left side swirls cut out with the iron-on-fussing paper removed.

Now  they have been ironed on to my background fabric.

ready to be machine appliqued down.

I only iron down what I’m going to work on, as the pieces get rubbed to much if every thing is ironed down with all the twisting and turning you have to do when machine appliqueing, then they start lifting and falling off, so just take photos of how you liked your lay out remove every thing but the pieces you are working from and start appliqueing.

checking swirls for size of circles I will need?

Looking at how that left side will look?

love the little birds?

Then finally it’s all in place and ready to be sewn down?

I now have 2 waiting to be appliqued down now and number 4 started?

Starting to applique down my stems first.

These yellow stems remind me of Disneyland Eels LOL  I’m going to add eyes to them????

Procrastinating over which coloured thread to use on the swirls, aqua or gold, I ended up using both Gold on the top of the swirls and aqua on the bottom ones!!!

You can see the gold thread on the top swirls and the bottom aqua, the colour of the fabric makes the threads change colour?  and the gold on top makes like the sun is hitting the tops?

I started making up my block last night at 7pm and cut and cut till midnight . Only the main stem is sewn down and I did that a couple of days ago. Now I need to iron down my mushroom lights remove every thing else but the stems and start machine appliqueing it all Down?

My centre 4 blocks of Wrapt in Love

I Have small creatures tucked in funny places in my garden for my Grandies to find?  Notice

Notice the eatten  leaves? It makes one wonder how they can chew through the leaf in the centre of it?

Look closely, she hiding under her web, yes it’s a gunnel web spider not some thing I like finding but we have a lot of them here?

Bbeautiful birds nest fern?

CColurs are so lovely on this local weed but it’s a menice it covers every thing so quickly and kills it?

This is a dead flower head from a palm tree above, this flower is around 7 feet long?

NNature helping make the end of the swimming pool like lush cool and beautiful?

hows that for Colour?

Can you spot the cat?