WOW or WIP’s 23rd Oct. Rebuilding stack and slash fans

Hello every one making my blog so I don’t forget what I have been doing?   I miss linking each Wednesday with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s but we just need to send her DD lots of prayers that she gets well and we see our Dear Esther back home soon.

I will share this blog as I’m writing it as I’m so late doing it?

Last week I unpicked all those seams on the 3 stack and slash fans and started to rebuild a new quilt centre???

This is where I was up to till I decided I was not happy with where it was not going toLOL

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Have to share this HH with you from Dianne. She does such beautiful needle skills and to see them with my own eyes is incrediable.  The stitches are so fine even with my glasses on I could not see them clearly, I looked under my magnifying glass and still they were so fine to count, ended up with 12 plus stitches to the inch!!!!!!  Thank you Dianne for such a treasure can see why your applique looks so realistic.

This is what I call mini mini stitches I can not see them? Even from the back it was hard to count those tiny stitches?

To day I have been building my pieces for my big blooms in the final border of HOTYH showing the below for any one new  to doing iron on fussing when making thes blooms

Building my HOTYT blooms on a tephlon sheet, first I made the double fabric petals see at the left .

Slowly it grows, those double petals look so beautiful when the bloom is completed.

Don’t rush this part of ironing your pieces to make your bloom

watch closely at all joins before ironing? See just left of the centre blue petal there is a touch I did not cover! I will cover this with my machine applique, but it does make a weak spot so will add a tiny piece of fabric behind that spot.

TTwo blooms down Yayyyyyy I’m so happy.

now to play with them before starting two more !

This  is my dinning table Imusing as I’m not able to go down and work in my studio space yet? I just have every thing in dishes or boxes so I can clear the table quickly??!

so this is where they belong,  notice my leaves I like to use lots of colour learnt that from Nancy  (Paris), loved how her quilts glowed

Up till yesterday all I have been doing since my knee replacement 9 weeks ago is quilting, and doing sashiko quilting on 3 different quilts and some fine quilting on another.  It was some thing I could see???  I found up until recently I was having trouble focussing, now I’m not on so many pain killers m y sight is improving and I can sit longer, so all been well I will be doing more applique soon?

Sashiko quilting this quilt.

I’m liking the feel of the quilt after I’ve quilted it, I thought it might be stiff but it’s lovely and soft.