Only 4 more days and Part 2 of Esther’s lovely BOM Hope for 2020 will be released, there’s a lot more this month to work on compared to Part 1 but if you do lots of prep work it will grow quickly. Below two photos were where I left you last week.
It’s wonderful seeing my prep work growing again on my Hope Centre, as it has been put aside to finish another WIP!!!!
Now its on to applqiueing down my bows stage and making up my doilies I need 4? ???
My Doilies as I made them from the top. I ironed on some light weight interfacing then shrunk one of the embroidery stitches and sewed my hatch cross lines. cut out my shape, added my tiny applqiue drops and scallops which are cut out as one piece from iron on fussing fabric!
Then over to the machine and appliqued those tiny pieces to my centre using a double blanket stitch, love how it makes the wee doillie Pop. Now to make 3 more!
I couldn’t wait to make my wee dolls, I think they are so so cute, their dresses are made from irononfussing but their heads are hand made and have a tiny bits of wadding behind them to make them 3 D. I’m working on one corner at a time most of the time!!!!! My fusing is lifting off because of the high temps and humidity, so I iron on one piece, machine or hand sew it down, then add another piece of applqiue, its slow but it works????
Love how the machine applique and coloured thread change the look of the fabric?.
4 bows were all most completed and then on the last 8inches to go disaster hits me? My machine chewed up the fabric after unpicking all the chewed thread my edge of the bow was badly frayed, I could not cover that edge with machine applique?
I cut out a slither of the same fabric and ironed it over the frayed area?
Then machine appliquéd as usual, it has covered 2/3 rds of the slither but I needed to anchor that other part of the slither some how to stop it lifting in the first wash!!!!!
Out with the DMC embroidery threads, using two threads and a number 10 long milliners needle I made up 3 tiny tiny bees
My wee bee’s look like they ahve just landed LOL Disaster avoided I think???
First ?I made Sue’s Bonnet I added Blue French knots to add a wee touch of colour to the lace. She is now waiting for me to finish sorting out what her dress is going to be !!!!!
Going to see if I can find any thing in the gardena after a weeks rain!!!!!
He lives on our veranda, catches flies, mosquitoes, and small house spiders.
He shed his skin 3 days ago. This is it?
What I hate about the wet season, our lovely white beams covered with mould? They have to be wiped down with a strong chlorine to kill it?
Golden orb spide you can see his lovely gold web in blobs next to him. He’s living in the car port,
Crucifix spider. Also lives in the carport!
Golden orb spider build the most complected webs, so fine and so large.
Stag plant, Have just removed the rope hold it to the palm, his own outer leaf is holding him to the trunk now.
Glorious evening colours green, purple and pink, how well they go together.
Glorious!!
It started to rain just after I went out to take photos
Rain is coming in across the river.
Thank you so much for dropping by. Cheers Glenda
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