WOW or WIPS with Esther 29th May 2019 Bias strips?

You can buy 1/2inch bias no problem but it’s not so easy to buy 1/16th !!! But you can make it from a 1/2 inch strips? take the colour of your choice and cut a strip longer than you need,

Choose the colour bias strip you want on you work

Choose the colour bias strip you want on your work

Carefully cut off a fraction on the right hand side if you are right handed.

Slither of fabric cut off right hand side of the bias strip, to do this sellertape the top and bottom to the cutting board to help keep the bias strip open?

Then I carefully fold the edge back down only to the size I need,

Third strip from right is folded over and pressed after removing a smigeon of fabric, 4th strip of bias top and bottoms again taped down with selatape and then I have carefully cut down the centre of the 1/2 inch bias tape,

5th strip from right I have pressed the centre edge (where I cut the strip in 1/2) back behind the piece I have been making. It’s just a little smaller than 1/4 inch strip now. last strip is a perfect bias the same size as Esther’s stems in Part 6, now to make the other 1/2 the same way, so if you are careful you can make two strips of less than 1/16th bias from the one 1/2 inch strip of bias.

Two done 38 more to do LOL. I’m using a satin bias strip here, but you could use cotton or silk?

You could not use Roxanne’s glue to spot touch the back to hold these tiny bias pieces in place or pand hand s

You could use Roxanne’s glue to spot touch the back to hold these tiny bias pieces in place or pin then hand or machine appliqué down?

Im very behind on both my BOMs life has got in the way of my sewing and then my machine I use for my applique failed so will be with out my machine for a month or more? So I have opt for doing as much prep as possible. This week when I’ve had any time it’s been making my circles for part 5 of HOTYH

Finally settled on these colours. Have since added a deeper mauve?

Then it was those wee flowers, these are the colours Imgoing with one Dow 7 to go?

Then it was those wee flowers, these are the colours I’m going with, one down 7 to go?

Leaves chosen I just need to cut them out, cutting out 90 wee petals to make up my flowers

Leaves chosen I just need to cut them out, plus cutting out 90 wee petals to make up my flowers???

Then one Bow drafted and cut out? I’ve used two shades of yellow, my back bottom part of the bow is darker to give more depth . My bow is made up of 7 pieces?

Getting ready to cut out my bows. Notice that the full circle part of the bow is cut through at the centre this makes it easy to cut out the centre part of the bow?

When stems are less than 1/8th they are fidly

When stems are less than 1/8th they are difficult to handle.

Making my stem draft, most of us find it difficult to draw a straight line or draw a very narrow stem shape, instead of drawing a line just dot along the line it is so much easier and then you cut through each dot ? ,

Making my stem templates, most of us find it difficult to draw a straight line or draw a very narrow stem shape, instead of drawing a line just dot along the line it is so much easier and then you cut through each dot ? ,I’m using a light weight plastic here for my template.

Now we try and cut out these narrow narrow stems and our template keeps moving, we need a third and fourth hand, take two tiny pieces of seletape and tape the template on to your fabric each end of the template? and start drawing out the shape?