This blog is about how I started and finished Part 6 of HOTYH. Doing the applique with iron on fussing, it’s a tutorial in photos for any one new to it? I hope it will help some one?
First I cut and pasted a full pattern and started with my frames. All my fabric all ready has iron on fussing behind it.
Step 2 this small circles I’m using silks for this part!
Circles are all from the same fabric but the light places tricks with silk fabrics and makes them all look different.
Thought about butterflies but could not find the right ones?
Then choose some very tiny Chines silk embroidery yellow flowers with blue satin backing and love them. My DGS’s partner gav3 the fabric to me how sweet is that?
Two completed Frames.
I even thought of antique buttons in my frames? But they were two dark and not round?
Next was to make my Catus plants, I was thinking rust or orange tones? But no these fabrics jumped out at me ?
Added some bright green flowers picking through the catus. On to some stems each side of the catus, again not my choice in colour but the blue leaves called out loudly to me?
Two toned star flowers just fitted there so perfectly.
Placed my diamonds in to get my true felling of the block ? I’m so happy with how it grew, by this time it’s midnight but I cannot stop?
So two flower heads added for effect
Then two more?
A few tiny leaves this is allbeen ironed on to Teflon sheets.
My first bird is made and added, my blue birds we’re going to be delft blue???
My second bird is made and added, again not a delft blue LOL. But I love her.
These wee birds are adorable, how much fun I have had with this beautiful block Esther, thank you so much.
Finally finished at 1.45am?!
Next day I placed all the pieces on to a felt board till I would need them?
Finally What my Part 6 will look like on my Hold On To Your Heart quilt when I get around to appliqueing all of them to my centre of HOTYH?
Hello??? Any one reach this far. LOL
During the week I was given some fabric in a bag and told, not sure if you can use this? I could not wait to get back home and see what was in there, it’s such a lucky dip when friends do this. Well I sure struck it lucky, there were two large pieces of flannel but first all these fabrics are over 50 years old and plus, have been put away in a cupboard all that time? 2 metres of thin cotton that looks like it may have been 1930s child’s fabric.
Such adorable fabric, have placed a machine bobbin on it so you can see how small the little creatures are.
Then there were two pieces of tartan fabric?
Red and green tartan, it is a heavy weave wool and would be soooo warm to wear. It’s a double weave and there is 6 metres . Lots of moth holes on the edges were it had been folded but as it’s a heavy weight wool it will not matter.
Soft green and navy blue with a wee narrow yellow strip tartan. This one is a light wool and very soft. This pieces has no moth holes that I have noticed yet? Double weave also and about 6 metres ! Not sure what I will do with either of the tartans? But one day I will LOL.
Bag one finished
Bag two finished also now.
Only garden matter this week is a large white tailrat we caught as it was getting too friendly and wanting to come inside!!! After it ran over Hubbies foot twice he set the trap?
He was a very viciose fellow!
Notice his long whitetail. He now lives else were?!
thank you for dropping in and making it finally to the end . Going to link up with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s now. Hope to see you all again next week. Cheers Glenda
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