tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64177036225973489802024-03-13T13:54:53.836+13:00Jenny quiltsJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-90315863946619657302018-07-04T08:10:00.001+12:002018-07-04T08:10:19.326+12:00Secret Garden & Red Delicious QuiltedHi Everyone,<br />
Still not finding the time to write my blog regularly as have been on a roll with my stitching or rather quilting some of the tops that have been finished and waiting for me. This morning it is time for me to bring my diary a little more up to date.<br />
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First on my list was Secret Garden<br />
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Was very surprised to find that fmq finally seems to becoming easier for me, especially by the time I got to the end of the 70 something butterflies that I decided on for the backgrounds of my blocks.<br />
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With the applique butterflies I had already added I only stitched around all the applique in the center</div>
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A simple cross pattern for the corner blocks and replicated the applique motif in the triangles.</div>
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then it was butterflies</div>
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And more butterflies</div>
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Copied the different butterflies in each block so there was a variety to quilt.</div>
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Above photo shows the curved ruler Steve made for me for quilting around these blocks, he has also made me a straight ruler so have been practising with that as well.<br />
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Happy with Secret Garden it was time to start on Red Delicious.<br />
I was really in a quandry about what to do as all the blocks are very different so didn't want to just use one pattern for everything. Decided the best way was just to start and see where it led me.<br />
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My straight ruler worked better than I expected</div>
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This scared me, some wobbles but best I could do.</div>
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I like doing clamshells, they were lots easier than I thought they would be.</div>
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Lots of searching to find a pattern I was comfortable with for these panels</div>
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Back to clamshells for this one.</div>
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so wanted to keep some order to my quilting</div>
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Wasn't sure what to do here so started by adding a simple vine to the main trunks.</div>
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Liked it so added it to the rest of the block<br />
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So much open space on this block I wasn't sure if I could keep my free motion consistent so<br />
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Very happy with how it came out<br />
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reduced the motif so I could use it again for this block<br />
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Cross hatch for this little block</div>
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Almost feathers for the Fan Block</div>
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Mix of the two sizes of motif for the central block.</div>
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Echoed the curve of the tablecoth</div>
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The heart then needed echo quiting as well</div>
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All done and am so happy with how it looks.</div>
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Biggest thing for me with finishing these two quilts is realising that my Free motion quilting is slowly improving and I am feeling more confident to try different things.</div>
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Still have more catching up to do with my blog diary but at least these two are recorded.</div>
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Well, this year life has got in the way of my blogging. Have been meaning each week to write my quilting diary and each week I say I will do it next week so lots of catching up to do.<br />
This week it is Love Always as it is fresh in my mind as have been working on part 5 this week.<br />
In my last blog, way back in Jan I had just finished my center block.<br />
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Very happy and thought my colours for this quilt are set and know where I am heading with it.<br />
Had an idea what I wanted for my vases, a sort of oriental look using fabrics that some metallic on them for an extra bit of bling along with my metallic thread.<br />
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Part two is tulips and I had a lovely mottled peach/pink fabric that was ideal for it.</div>
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Part 3 I loved making, it is much busier and reminded me of Love Entwined with the tiny stems and little berries.</div>
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The stems were very narrow so used a variegated thread and triple stitch on machine to thread painted them in.</div>
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Finished and I think my favourite of the four vase blocks.</div>
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Part 4 a vase of carnation and wanted to use a sister fabric to the first block, pink with a bit of blue. This block had lots of twiggy stems to deal with first.</div>
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They were a little larger than in the last block so used a very small zigzag stitch to stitch them. </div>
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Next was the flowers, tried the oval base to them in the pattern but couldn't get my colours right so opted to use part of another pattern of Esther's instead.</div>
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Very Happy, they look how I picture carnations to be.</div>
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Now to have the blocks so far together.</div>
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I carried on with other things during the month but the more I looked at my blocks something was wrong, it was lovely but where was the pop?</div>
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There are still elements to add around the center but they can't be the pop so I started to play with my center flowers, making new ones that were darker and also introduced a bit of orange, to give me more options for my border flowers</div>
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With two made and pinned in place I liked the look, more so when placed with the completed blocks.<br />
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Decided on my vase fabric and carried through the gold I have used on all my vases.</div>
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It is a beautiful fabric with a wonderful sheen, had my blue that I wanted but also gold and green.</div>
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This is where the wheels fell off as when I put my vase up with the other blocks the balance fell apart and nothing gelled together.</div>
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My deeper center was going to work as it was drawing the eye in but only my latest vase stood out and all the flowers were there but doing nothing. </div>
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It was time for some serious reverse stitching so took all my blocks to quilt group last Friday and unpicked my center flowers and the two tall vases, felt they were the ones that would be easiest to alter, changing my block flowers was not an option LOL </div>
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Like the first one I used a limited number of fabrics and changed their placement for each flower. Decided I didn't really like the way the center petal overlapped the side ones with these fabrics so put it underneath instead, strange because I was very happy with it on top in the lighter flowers.<br />
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I wanted more gold tones to balance the yellow in my tulips so decided to go with an earthy look heading into orange and finish the star flowers with bright orange centers.<br />
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To stitch those tiny flower centers I reduced my inwards stitch width to 1.6 instead of my normal 1.8 but left the length between stitches at 2. You are turning your fabric every stitch on such a small circle, if the stitches are too close together or too long they will stitch over each other instead of being seperate.<br />
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With my block finished and all my changes made it was time to put them all back together.<br />
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Hope you have enjoyed seeing how Love Always has evolved into a totally different quilt to how it started. Going to link with Esther's WOW on Wednesday now and head back to some stitching.</div>
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Enjoy your week everyone,</div>
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Blogging got forgotten over Christmas and the New Year but do hope that it was a good time for you all and there was plenty of family and friends around you.<br />
My time has been divided between stitching and gardening, we are finally after years of having building materials and may need one day things stored all around the yard getting outside things finished and the gardens in order so whenevr the weather has been not too hot have been outside.<br />
After finishing Secret Garden put it aside until I found my backing. All my other quilt tops were finished as well so it was time for a new project.<br />
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In the Pink, another Esther's patterns from before I joined her group had been on my mind so it was time to make it. A lovely mix of piecing and applique that I found irresitible.<br />
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Had a fabric to use for the main fabric and found a wonderful hydrangea fabric to go with it so matched my other fabrics to that and was underway. Started with the pieced blocks, easiest one first<br />
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It is a straightforward nine patch that is then cut into four and rearrange and sewn back together. Straightaway could see I have far more contrast in my fabric than Esther so am ging to have a much stronger look.<br />
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Second of the blocks again a reassembled nine patch but you make the half square tringle blocks before you start, little more fiddly to get the points perfect but love how exact Esther's measurements always are. Cut correctly they go to together perfectly.<br />
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With a few of these made started on to the first of the applique blocks, which I had to piece first.</div>
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A triangle strip which goes across the block. The first one, though I cut to measurement was too long so went back to my tried and true method of foundation or paper piecing it. Result was perfect and the triangles I had already cut worked perfectly. Next add to each side and the block is ready for applique. </div>
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The center is the trickiest part of this pattern. Esther puts five center blocks together and then adds the applique as the flower stems all crossover the seams into the center block. I decided to put nine blocks together and save myself having to worry about Y seams when adding the other blocks.</div>
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It took a couple of sessions to position the flowers and lay all the stems into the center</div>
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Haven't started stitching it yet as got sidetracked into writing a tutorial on how I set up my machine and do my applique stitching. Wrote this up last week so have a look if you would like to know more.</div>
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Then it was the 1st Jan and Esther released her BOM's for 2018, all gorgeous and I did have trouble deciding which to make but Love Always had a special pull because of its relationship to Love Entwined. Couldn't get my head around a colourway so finally decided to make the center from my stash and see what happened. </div>
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It worked, loving the varying tones in what is obviously the same flower.</div>
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Decision made, stayed with the gold and think it was the right choice, block just sparkles.</div>
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It is Maderia mettalic No3 a soft gold which gives a lovely aged look. My machine is set exactly the same as I stitch my other applique and gives me no problem</div>
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Hooray, my blogging is up to date and hopefull I can stay that way for a while.</div>
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Linking to Esther's WOW then will get some stitching done.</div>
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Have been asked how I stitch my applique, know I have written a tutorial in the past but never label my blogs so now I can't find it. This one will be more detailed with set up for my machine first as this is the most important part for getting a great result.<br />
Am showing how I appliqued the leaves and flower of a block from In The Pink, an early pattern by Esther Aliu which I have been making since I finished Secret Garden. Will blog my progress with ITP seperately though.<br />
Here we go.<br />
Probably the most important thing in machine applique is to forget what you know about the perfect settings for stitching. Your machine is set by the manufacturer to stitch with the perfect stitch, <b>if you are stitching seams</b> <b>that is</b> and every one knows that fabric or thread choice can mean you need to make slight adjustments. For applique these adjustments are much bigger.<br />
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On the left is my machines default setting for tension, have to say I normally set it at 3 for straight stitching as it seems to stitch better for me.<br />
On the right for applique I reduce my top tension to 1 and then stitch a sample with my chosen thread and fabrics to make any fine adjustment, metallic thread may need to be a little less than 1 depending on fabric.<br />
You can see at the bottom of these photo's a sliding control, this is stitching speed and you can see it is set just under the center. I will not be stitching fast and this setting stops an accidental press of the foot that will send me racing away - and unpicking.<br />
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My usual stitch is a single blanket/buttonhole stitch although machine has two others that I use on occasion but this is the one I use most.<br />
On the left default setting and the right my setting. It is length that I reduce most as doing raw edge it seems to almost seal the edges as I stitch.<br />
For smaller pieces and narrow points or areas my width could reduce down to 1.4<br />
Stitch adjusts in .2 increments at the push of a button so easy to do while stitching.<br />
Have also set the needle to the down position, vital for all the stopping and turning of fabric.<br />
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The threads I am stitching my block with are Maderia Polyneon and a Mettler Polysheen variegate.<br />
They are synthetic threads so care needs to be taken to press from the back of the work when stitching with these as too hot an iron can melt them.<br />
On the right is my normal bobbin thread, Seralene which is similar to Bobbinfill, Decobob or other lightweight specialist bobbin threads.<br />
My Bernina machine has an eye on the hook of the bobbin case which I use when threading the bobbin as it tightens the bottom tension slightly with out having to alter the actual bobbin tension.<br />
I only have two shades of bobbin thread for applique, beige for light backgrounds and black for very dark ones but have a Decobob bobbin set of colours that will use if am concerned about a particular area<br />
Needle is an 80-12 Cordenet or topstitch needle, the sharp point and slightly larger eye I find ideal for the majority of threads I use including metallic<br />
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As most of my threads are on small cones and my machines main holder for thread is horizontal I prefer to feed my thread from a stand. Also gives a better feed with specialty threads. A tip given to me that I use is to tape a safety pin to end of machine and use that as the first feed from the stand as in photo on right.<br />
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The last thing I alter before I start stitching is the pressure on my foot. can't take a photo as the numbers don't stay on screen long enough but machine has recommended pressure of 47. Once again I am not straight stitching so I reduce pressure to between 25 and 30.<br />
This means I can move the fabric under the foot while stitching gentle curves.<br />
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Have checked my settings are right by stitching a test of same fabrics and thread plus my stabiliser.<br />
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If you haven't done much machine applique I would suggest you start by just stitching for a while and feeling and understanding how your machine stitches ie left, right, forward and repeat or maybe its left, right, forward, back, forward then left, right again, it all depends on your machine.<br />
Get into the rhythm and count it in your head so you can predict where the needle will stop and go next. You really need to know this for when you turn your fabric or to pivot at a corner or point. Thanks Terry, I know my stitch so well had forgotten to mention the importance of this.<br />
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Although my stitching would look good without stabiliser, (used it hardly at all for Love Entwined )<br />
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I'm stitching the flower at the top of photo so have cut a piece the size I need.<br />
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Nearly forgot, am using an open toed embroidery foot which gives clear vision of the stitching area.<br />
I prefer to tie off all my stitching on the reverse so make sure I have both threads long enough for tying and secure the top one with my fingers as I set the needle for my first stitch. Botom thread is laying flat and out behind the needle.<br />
Needle is positioned JUST off the edge of the fabric, you do not want to catch the fabric edge as this can cause fraying, too far away from the edge also creates problems as background may pucker or fabric can fray because you have only caught one or two threads.<br />
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I have picked a place to start where because I am stitching stem and leaves in one colour I won't have to stop and restart my stitching. I use a small straight stitch to travel either under or on my stitching.<br />
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My skills in paint are terrible but the black line is where I will stitch, the two red lines on the swirl at top of photo are where I will straight stitch in, turn and stitch around the swirl, then straight stitch back out to carry on up the stem.<br />
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Stitch slowly and maintain the needle entering your background just off your applique.</div>
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Where the base of the flower is I will again use a small straight stitch to move to the other edge, stitching right next to the flower but not on it. those stitches will covered when stitching the flower.</div>
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Here I have reached the very point and have turned my fabric so that I can take one stitch inwards right on the point. Machine has a pattern start button so that I only do the in and back stitch then turn my fabric for the forward stitch down the next side. With knowing my stitch well I can stop and place my needle precisely for the point if necessary or adjust a couple of stitches coming to the point, this is where the rhythm comes in.</div>
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Stitching finished and on the reverse the top thread is clearly being pulled through by the bobbin thread. Hands up in horror if this was a seam but for applique this is what you want on the back of your work.<br />
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Positioning for the start, though thinking about it, it can be easier to start on the straight rather than right on the point as I have here.<br />
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Approaching the point this is where I start reducing my stitch, 1.6for next few stitches then to 1.4<br />
Note that my applique edge where I will stitch is always at 90 degrees to my needle, use the inside right edge of the foot as your guide and stop and turn fabric a fraction every stitch of necessary to keep that edge at 90 degrees, moving the fabric at the start of your forward stitch.<br />
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My forward stitch has taken me right to the point so have turned fabric so that point is at 90 degrees to my foot to make 1 horizontal stitch in and back to the same point.<br />
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Next stitch is forward and am stitching away from the point, two stitches at 1.4, two at 1.6 then back to 1.8. the rest of the curve I can gently move my fabric as I stitch.<br />
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You can see the top threads clearly on the reverse. The cut in my stabiliser is because when I started stitching the flower my fabric was not sitting perfectly on my stabiliser and a quick snip let me correct it.<br />
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For the center I wanted to do some additional stitching and decided I could do it as at the same time as stitching the edge.<br />
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Used an air dissappearing pen to draw my stitching lines on the center.<br />
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Stitched the first side reducing my stitch to 1.6 at the start of the neck and kept that size to the point.<br />
Turned my work to start the additional stitching and stitched with a small straight stitch in to the start of my marking the changed to triple stitch for a defined stitch and stitched on my drawn lines, stitched back out to the point and then completed the second side.<br />
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That is my flower finished and once the other panel is stitched it will look like this completed block<br />
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Hope this helps you understand my way of stitching and how I set my machine.<br />
Suggest you make up some samples, have a pad and pencil alongside and play with your machine noting your settings and record what works for you.<br />
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Enjoy your applique everyone.<br />
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-47582267765483168422017-12-14T08:51:00.001+13:002017-12-14T08:51:37.653+13:00Secret Garden updateHi Everyone,<br />
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Summer weather has come early this year, has been more like mid Jan temps so have been splitting my time between stitching and the garden.<br />
1st Dec brought part 11 of secret garden though it did pop up in my inbox early which I loved.<br />
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Loved this block as soon as I saw it and immediately knew I would stay with my butterfly fabric.<br />
Had to fiddle a bit to get the corners to match on some of my blocks as had problems when making some of my little squares and they weren't perfect.<br />
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The borders fitted perfectly and am so happy with how it looks.</div>
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With it all together was able to study the blocks and the first block seemed not quite right in the fabrics I had used. With block one had no idea what would come after it and my colours and fabrics volved as the blocks came along. The other blocks used mainly batiks for the flowers but the first one didn't and it just didn't seem to sit as well so decided now was the time to change some of them.<br />
Had already changed the bow so was confident about unpicking and all went well.<br />
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Am pleased with the new fabrics but have one more flower to change, Was happy with the peachy one but now it looks out of place to me so will redo it as well. Am gradually adding more butterflies as I decide where I want them.<br />
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One more added to this block, used two butterflies to create the one in the centers with both wings up, a friends suggestion as she loves seeing them like this and they are hard to find on fabric.<br />
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Was going to write more as have started another project and yes it's another of Esther's patterns.<br />
In The Pink another early pattern from before I joined her group, has always appealed to me so have made a start, photo's next time.<br />
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Enjoy your week everyone,<br />
Cheers Jenny</div>
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Not sure where the time has gone but a month since I last blogged. Spring weather has been good so have been spending time in the garden so not as much stitching has been done.<br />
Having to think what I have done during the month.<br />
Put the borders onto Red Delicious so another one joins the growing pile of those waiting to be quilted.<br />
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Very happy with how it looks, a pattern of Esther's that I have wanted to make for years nand it was so enjoyable to make.<br />
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OMWFB is now a finished quilt top as well. Block 4 was fun to do and went quickly as had my fabrics all picked and ready to go. Did remember to take photo's as I went.<br />
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Chosen fabrics and testing a vase fabric using a template</div>
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With this done it was time to decide my last two fabrics and put the top together.</div>
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Tried several but these two worked together and added the little bit of bling that I so love.</div>
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On My Window Flowers Bloom</div>
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Love how it looks, had concerns my flowers in part 4 might have been too bold but my top vases are very strong colours and am happy with the balance the dark edges has brought.</div>
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Another for the must quilt pile.</div>
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Work on OMWFB stalled for a while when Part 10 of Secret Garden was released and it was time to put the center together. Was so pleased that what was pinned to my wall was the layout and even more pleased when it went together without a problem. Having reduced the pattern it was fingers crossed I was making the right calculations especially when it came to final trimming.</div>
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It was at this stage that I seriously looked at block 1 again as have not been completely happy with the flower colours against those of the other blocks. Maybe not the colours so much as the actual fabrics I used, made up my mind and very carefully unpicked and replaced two of them.</div>
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Not a huge difference but a bit more depth and the fabrics I didn't like are gone. Now have to replace the bud over the vase as it needs to be dark. and think about adding more butterflies which is what I am doing this morning.<br />
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Linking now to Esther's WOW and back to my butterflies<br />
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Cheers Jenny</div>
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-8843978205248520012017-10-25T11:28:00.002+13:002017-10-25T11:28:18.790+13:00WOW 25th October Catching upHi Everyone,<br />
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Missed blogging last week as I was busy playing with my new toy.<br />
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A portable quilting frame complete with a Juki machine. First place to set it up was on my sewing table and yes it takes up a lot of space, 72" like this but has an extension that takes it to 108"</div>
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Played with the machine firstbefore putting it on the frame and what a fantastic straight sewer it is, already love it but boy is it fast. Lots of practice going to be needed before I attempt one of my quilts.</div>
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At the weekend Steve refurbished a desk he had in the garage and the frame has now moved to our 4th bedroom/office and I have got my sewing table back. </div>
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Set up in its new room, won't be able to use the extension in here but least it can stay set up while I practice. Have been told am not having any more rooms two is the limit, garage is out of bounds also.</div>
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Gracie very happy as the single bed from that room has moved to the sunroom and is now her favourite place to spend the day. </div>
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Fingers are crossed that she doesn't decide to eat it, as she ate the secondhand couch we got for her last year and we had to dump it as it was beyond repair. Must remind Steve it would be nice to get the walls finished as well, the joys of having a builder husband.</div>
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Took Hexit back to the group last week, decided to cut off the zigzag ends and add top and bottom borders to make it more functional for whoever is lucky enough to win it when it is raffled.</div>
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The Dargaville ladies throughly enjoyed making it and it looks stunning</div>
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Enjoyed making part 3 of OMW Flowers Bloom as had just bought some batiks that were on sale ot spotlight and knew I wanted to use one in particular for my leaves as it had just the right look. Did concentrate on my vase and flower first though.</div>
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Used a lighter fabric for the back of my flower and the cut my petals from the poppy fabric I had tried for block two. Triple stitch for my stamens in a variegated lilac thread and a double blanket stitch in varigated metallic for the little circles. </div>
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Very happy with how they have turned out.</div>
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Inbetween I have been slowly working away on my Red Delicious blocks. very different working with shades of one colour and at times it is a challenge but its also lots of fun.</div>
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Cherry Thieves was the next one up, here all the fabrics are in place but nothing stitched.</div>
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All stitched, the metallic on the wings and tail make a huge difference</div>
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The eye is a real feature on these birds so decided to use reverse applique placing a slightly deeper plain red under the cutout of the eye. Meant I could blanket stitch outwards around the eye giving it better definition. Used a pigma pen for the eye itself and a dot from a metallic silver pen as a highlight.</div>
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Next up was Love Apple another smaller block with two Pomegranates and an Apple.</div>
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With these blocks done it was time to add the small swirly block to the bottom and join the first two panels together</div>
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Last of the small blocks in the center panel was Nightshade. Bought another couple of fabrics before starting this one as had use most of my reds and wanted to have different ones rather than reusing the same fabrics</div>
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Paired with the fan block to complete the bottom of the first two panels.</div>
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Fabrics all in place with using my second option for the stems. Had cut them first out of a black fabric with a tiny red dot all over but it was just too dark and hard looking. Found this blackberry fabric and though it is still very dark it is dark purple and works much better.</div>
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Stitched with a purple, yellow and green variagated thread it has come to life.</div>
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The final block finished</div>
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Yesterday I joined the completed the third panel and assembled the top, this morning have put on the final sashings so only the outer borders to do once I decide on my fabrics.</div>
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Red Delicious.</div>
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Love this pattern and have had so much enjoyment making it, now to practice lots on my quilter so that I can do it justice with the quilting.</div>
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Linking now to Esther's WOW for 25th October,</div>
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Loved it on 1st Oct when it was the center block for Secret Garden that Esther gave us.<br />
Having no idea what it would be it was fabulous seeing the so romantic looking block with all its flowers. Dived straight in as it was an easy choice for the stems and little flowers in the corners.<br />
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Love the shape of the stems, a knot celtic look to them although from some angles they do remind me of fish, cute fish though.</div>
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For the center decided to use my contrast fabric and also use the dark fabric from my little squares.</div>
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Don't have a lot of that so had been keeping it for the right time.</div>
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With my contrast fabric a butterfly became perfect choice for the very center.</div>
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Next to go one was the leaves below the flowers, are they the sepals am never sure. used fabric that I thought would work but in place it was a little washed out looking, not quite green enough so used pencils to colour them up a little.</div>
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Easy so far but the flowers were next. Knew I wanted to tie in the colours of the blocks especially block one where I used a mix of colours for my flowers while the others are more a single theme and all in shades of pink/purple.</div>
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Last decision was to add the butterflies. I have them in every block and while they have filled the open spaces on each side they don't seem to have taken anything away from the block.</div>
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I have sewn the little blocks into rows for the border but not attached them yet and my design wall is so full of Secret Garden that not sure where I can add anymore, wish it was big enough to pin it out to the measurement and I could try and guess what else is to come.</div>
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Now I can go back to my Red Delicious blocks until the 15th and the 3rd part of On My Window.</div>
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Linking to Esther's WOW</div>
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Have had a good couple of weeks but ran out of time to post last week as got carried away with Hexit after going to group on the Tuesday where fantastic progress was made by the teams of ladies.<br />
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Laid out on the floor all the hexagons are made and most of the rows sewn together. Only on problem, I had stitched my side pieces along the wrong edges so they wouldn't match and had to be unpicked. And I took so long making sure they were correct. Lol</div>
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With the rows completed it was dropped back to me so I could add the side sections and also the final row of diamonds.</div>
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Hexit has grown into a rather large quilt as you can see from the photo.</div>
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Before this of course part two of Flowers Bloom was released and I had great fun with this block after a couple of false starts as thought I would use more of the vegetable fabrics for my leaves, when that didn't work I tried another leaf material I had.</div>
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Also had a poppy fabric that I thought would work so made a couple of flowers out of that but they still looked like poppies and the colour didn't gel with my first block so tried my next fabric.</div>
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Took a wee while to sus how I had to place my fusible to get the petals to work.</div>
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Went back to a batik for my leaves, a green purple mix and a light green/yellow for the stems</div>
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The center is from a fabric with oranges on it so decided to use pens to add to the round blotches it already had. Stitched with variegated thread which really highlights the shape.</div>
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Apale variegated with touches of mauve on the stems.</div>
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All done and happy with my final choices</div>
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Had one little hiccup putting my blocks together as when I added the bottom sash my second vase was set an eighth inch to high. Not a lot but you just see a line of sky between the vase and the sash so unpicked the bottom of the vase up to the band and trim it away then slip a new base under the band and restitch.</div>
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Next up, Fanfare. Spent a few days just thinking about this one. I wanted an oriental look but nothing in my oriental scraps that would work and I couldn't find enough different reds that I was happy with, the pattern used seven but I came up short at five so decided to take a risk and use only two for the blades of the fan and another for the sides.</div>
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Some might remember the mini eggs in Esther's easter pattern, same material here, positioned so that I got angles rather than straight lines.Edges for the sides are satin ribbon as per the pattern. the braid was interesting as I cut narrow strips of a mottled gold fabric and edges them with blanket stitch in a gold mettalic and they just sat there and looked back at me. Not what I wanted at all !!</div>
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Normal spring weather this week, temps are slowly rising but has been a real mix of sun and showers everyday, great for the sewing room as can't do much outside.<br />
Got back on a roll with Red Delicious after finishing my Secret Garden corners.<br />
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Wondered if my sashing fabric was too dark but with it stitched in place, perfect, or I think so anyway. Was planning to make Ruby Tea next but wasn't sure what to use for the teapot etc. It needed to be light and felt I didn't have anything suitable, Went through the fat quarters at Country Dawn and there it was, my perfect fabric for an old fashioned storybook teaset.</div>
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The larger motif cut perfectly for the teapot down to getting the butterfly on the handle' Only piece I cut seperately was the knob on the teapot lid.</div>
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Took several attempts to find fabrics I liked for the strawberries, getting them to show up enough without being center stage. tried out something I had only heard abot for the stitching as felt that full metallic might be too much. Stitched them with both metallic gold and a red thread through the eye of the needle together and it worked, really well!! </div>
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The metallic shows but not every stitch so it is much softer. Believe you can get a double eye needle for doing this but have never seen one locally.</div>
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Spring is here or its meant to be, having mixed weather with sunny periods but lots of showers and a few days that are just perfect for the sewing room as wet and miserable outside.<br />
Decided it was time to make some more blocks for my purple pieced quilt but my heart wasn't it cutting up more of one of the purple fabrics as just love it, had bought more of it for the borders but if I made this quilt queen size as I planned would have none left and the local shop had sold out (to me) so decided to make it a single quilt which will also fit our dining table.<br />
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By putting half blocks all the way around have ended up with a center that looks balanced and finished and didn't have to cut into anymore of my purple fabric.These were very simple blocks to make but the half blocks were like putting a jigsaw together as to which square and rectangle went where and even when I thought I had stitched correctly, unpicking and turning edges around was a regular occurence.<br />
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Very happy with how the border looks but sun streaming in this morning, darker purple on the left is closest to the true shade and this the fabric I don't want to use up. Now just need to buy batting and backing.<br />
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With this done I still had a 10 days till part eight of Secret Garden was released and I didn't feel like quilting DHill so what to do. There has been a quilt / wallhanging I have wanted to make for several years, in fact from when I first found Esther's BOM group. I bought the pattern a couple of years ago and it seemed like what better time to start as I can just make the blocks as I have time and have the right fabrics. The pattern is Red Delicious which is the first BOM that Esther shared back in 2008<br />
One block has always intrigued me so that is the one I started with.<br />
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The reason I had never started this was I don't have many red fabrics in my stash except in batiks for applique but a few weeks ago I purchased a fat quarter pack from Craftsy hoping they would be suitable for Red Delicious. The three florals and the narrow border are from the pack and have worked well for this block.</div>
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The Lady Bird was my first problem as could not find a red with black spots that was suitable any where. Remembered I had an old red silk blouse that I had cut up for the fabric so tried using a permanent marker for the spots and it worked. Rinsed the fabric afterwards and the spots didn't run so used it along with a shiny black for the body.<br />
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By the time I had finished this block I was hooked, no wonder Esther got so many followers of her blog with this pattern. The fun thing making it now is I can choose which order to make the blocks in. Next for me was the Cherry Basket which I knew would be a challenge fabric wise, especially as this is the central block and it needed to be right, but what a mess I made of the start</div>
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Found this basket weave amongst my oriental fabrics so traced and cut my basket. Overthought it and cut the base on the vertical thinking it would make the rim look flat on the table. Was then that I realised I had traced the pattern from the right side so the basket was the wrong way round, to make it worse I had cut my tablecloth fabric away from behind the basket as well.</div>
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Another fat quarter from the Craftsy pack was ideal for these. only have the longest one stitched so far because 1st Sept arrived and so did part eight of Secret Garden.</div>
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Printed pattern at 75% and it matched perfectly to my 21 inche calculation for the long side of the triangle but was hesitant to start as no mention of using the contrast fabric listed in materials. Do I or don't I, someone else was wondering the same and Esther quickly answered the question so time to get underway with the little applique blocks first. And gosh they were little.</div>
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Used the same fabrics as last months triangles, again stitching the leaves and stems before adding the centers.</div>
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Had problems with the 40 little blocks not stitching square so decided to foundation piece the three parts of the block center and it worked a treat with my block going together quickly and everything matching perfectly.</div>
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This has to be one of the most beautiful patterns I have made, Thankyou Esther</div>
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With the four corner finished should have gone back to stitching my swirlies but couldn't resist starting another block, this time Cherry Blossom.</div>
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This is as far as I have got at the moment with only the frame and the first flower completed though my other flower petals are stitched down. Can't put the bottom leaf on until I decide on my sashing fabric as the leaf extends over it.</div>
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Hope you have all been having as much enjoyment from your stitching as I have. Once I link to Esther's WOW will be doing some more stitching on this block as having another day of rain.</div>
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Hand is feeling much better so have had lots of time in the sewing room this week. was going to stitch my butterfly wings but the Kaffe Fasset version of Esther's new BOM stopped me in my tracks, it looked so vibrant. Country Dawn where we meet for sit and sew on Thursdays has a range of KF fabrics so was sure I would find some that appealed as I always admire them as I walk past them to where my favourite fabrics are, BUT I pulled them out and tried my cut out vase template on them so I got a clear picture of how my vase would look and nothing grabbed me. Maybe I am just not a KF person, would explain why none in my stash.<br />
Moving to the brights that I do like, one that I have looked at several times jumped out at me and as soon as I put my template on it, that was it I had my vase fabric..<br />
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Had looked at their website and knew which sky fabric I wanted, from the Winds and Waves collection for Wilmington prints. Most sky fabrics have too much blue or are too clearly defined clouds and sky for me but this one is like an early morning sky with soft puffy pinks and blue with touches of yellow and lavender, in other words totally me.<br />
Tried several different fabrics for the frames hoping I would find one with the look of timber like the picture or a neutral that was the right tone for with the sky fabric. Only one I loved was a brickwork pattern, not what I had hoped but it was soft and the perfect shade so went with it.<br />
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All set and ready to start as had added in some vegetable fabrics and some batiks with stronger patterns than I normally choose along with a perfect fabric to fussy cut for my flowers<br />
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Had called in at Northland Bernina earlier in the morning to see what they in KF fabrics, they didn't stock them but this fabric jumped out and tapped me on the shoulder saying take me home. Didn't need to be asked a second time, the colours were so divine.<br />
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Spent the afternoon at a girlfriends where I prepped my pattern and traced all my petals onto fusible web ready to make a start the next day<br />
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Following the pattern I cut my sky blocks then all my border strips from the brick fabric. When I looked at the strips for the horizontal border - absolute horror - the pattern was so so NOT straight on the fabric.</div>
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This was not going to work, luckily I hadn't cut my templates for the block but I was eating into my fabric and if I recut these strips would I have enough fabric plus had already cut the lengthwise strips so no longer had full width of fabric either</div>
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Decided to go ahead and cut my templates for the blocks, lining up my template to the pattern and not the straight grain and it worked, they looked fine though knew would have to be careful handling the fabric so it didn't distort. Left an inch seam allowance top and side to help with this as well.</div>
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Stitched, the fabrics look great together and the brickwork pattern is very soft looking<br />
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From the fabric I had left I recut strips for the borders again following the pattern not the grain, took time over matching the joins which I now had to have, unless I buy more fabric, still thinking about this but with the degree of crookedness am probably better with joined lengths.</div>
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Time for the flowers, no idea what they would look like so just kept looking back at the right side and placing a petal where the colours looked right trying not to place numbers next to each other on the same colour. then came the fun of putting together and seeing the finished flower. this is the second large flower but all made the same way.</div>
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Used my favourite small blanket stitch for all my stitching. Thread is mettler variegate in pinks, mauves and yellow which has added definition to the petal edges but blends with the fabrics at the same time. For the centers I used a Maderia green metallic to bring out the green even more, still thnking about some extra stitching in the centers but will try on a sample first.</div>
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I didn't need another project but this block is now one of my all time favourites and I can't wait for next month, am already thinking colours. It is only eight day till the next part of Secret Garden is released so time to do some stitching on Hexit ready for next month and really should do some quilting on Diamond Hill as well so my days will fly by.</div>
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Nearly a month since I blogged, time has flown and not sure why but just haven't felt like sitting at the computer for any length of time. Fine days which have been few and far between found me outside trying to bring order to the garden ready for spring. Unfortunately though my thumbs took a hammering so was back to the doctor a couple of weeks ago for another cortisone injection as was struggling with prepping any stitching as well. Now that the cortisone has kicked in am back in the groove once again.<br />
Before my hands packed up I got D Hill pin basted and made a start on quilting but hasn't been touched for last few weeks. Hearts Desire has been named "The Ties that Bind" and will be going to the Auckland Festival of Quilts in November, at present it is covering the spare bed and I am just enjoying seeing it finished.<br />
Decided to play with a fun pattern I have had for a while but wasn't sure what fabric to use for it<br />
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In my stash found a fabric, though not a quilting fabric that I had bought because I loved the hydrangea colours and couldn't resist it.<br />
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It's woven so has lots of texture and also shimmers so really appeals to me.</div>
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Not a good fabric for fussy cutting as no real definition so thought would try another technique and just trace the whole wing pattern onto fusible and see what resulted.</div>
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The wing background is the same purple as I used in D Hill and really pleased with how the colours flow.</div>
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Different wing stitched with a dark multi colour mettalic.</div>
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My 16 Secret Garden blocks for August are completed though it took a while prepping them as my thumbs were at their most painful then. The little centers were so fiddly to cut out and kept dropping them while getting them in place but got there in the end.</div>
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Used a darker version of the fabric I used the previous month and made life easier by cutting my leaves as one piece and using my stitching for the definition.</div>
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Both my stems and the leaves are stitched with variegated threads, finding myself loving the softness I am getting from them and with the leaves it is hard to even see the stitching. Centers are stitched with my favourite Maderia metallic No3 soft gold.</div>
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It is a little darker but the same shade as the deeper tones in my block backgrounds so think it will work. Will use it for everything that looks like it is a border and just hope I don't need to remake those 40 little blocks at the end.</div>
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Here's how my design wall looks, can't bear to take it down as loving how it is developing.<br />
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Yesterday the quilting group met and it was time to see how everyone had got on making their diamonds for Hexit and to work on trimming and stitching them into hexagons. So many fantastic diamonds had been made we divided into a production line of trimming, pinning, stitching and pressing with others making up even more diamonds.</div>
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<span id="goog_1134843093"></span>By lunchtime sixteen hexagons complete and we could get an idea of how it is going to look. So many different scraps and it is looking amazing. End of the session and twenty eight hexagons made, only ten to go so next month we will be stitching rows together.<br />
This pattern by Esther is working beautifully as a group project and has been a great introduction to foundation piecing for some of the ladies as well.<br />
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Today I really should do some quilting on DHill but know that once I link to Esther's WOW for this week I will be printing out the new free BOM that she released yesterday and studying the pattern. I don't need another project but am finding it very hard to resist since seeing the Kaffe Fasset version, don't have any KF fabrics in my stash but am so tempted to buy some for it.<br />
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enjoy your own stitching<br />
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Have had great couple of weeks in my sewing room as winter is really with us and days have been cold with plenty of rain so no better place to be.<br />
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D Hill went together perfectly. Think this is one of the reasons I love working with Esther's patterns, they are precise and if you follow her instructions they go together so well.<br />
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Had concerns whether my diamonds on the black border would stand out too much compared to those on the light background but I needn't have worried, they look fine and I am thrilled with how the quilt top looks now it is finished, or nearly as one border still to go so and that concerned me as well. Am using my diamond fabric for both the final border and my binding and although I know it is the right choice am unsure what it will look like (maybe too busy) only way to find out was go ahead and do it so once I got the measurements on it went.<br />
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So far so good. Have cut my fabric two inches wide instead of one and a half as not sure how much fraying it will do while I am quilting it.<br />
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Spent the weekend after this preparing foundations and cutting fabric for a quilt the group I belong to are making for Hospice to raffle as a fundraiser. Wanted a pattern that everyone could take part in and Esther has kindly allowed me to share Hexit with the group for this purpose.<br />
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Made up packs of ten diamonds plus a sample so everyone could see the look and also an untrimmed diamond so the ones new to foundation piecing could understand what they were to do and these went to our meeting last week. Next month we will trim and mix up the blocks ready to start sewing together. Can't wait to see how the diamonds look as so many different scraps will be used.<br />
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With this organised it was time to do more quilting on Hearts Desire as had one candle border to quilt and the backgrounds of all the blocks. With my beginners quilting expected this to take a couple of weeks but maybe it was the terrible weather down south with massive flooding through Canterbury and Otago spurring me on but it only took four days to complete.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Thankyou Esther for this pattern which let me express my feelings</span></div>
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Can only say that completing Hearts Desire gives me a real feeling of fulfilment. I always refer to HD as my Christchurch quilt and am not sure yet what name it will have. Two are in my mind at present, Remembrance and Ties that Bind as for me this quilt tells the story of Christchurch and the people who live there. A beautiful garden city destroyed by earthquake with 185 lives lost. So many broken and ruined homes and lives but also so much courage and bravery by so many people. This event has become the ties that bind the people of ChCh together during the ongoing rebuild of a beautiful city.</div>
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Have had a great time since my last blog. Part 6 of Diamond Hill was the applique corners and I was ready and waiting with fabrics organised and Esther posted early so was able to do my prep for the first corner at sit and sew on the Thursday.<br />
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Mitred and joined my corners first then fused my stems and leaves in place. decided to use a mid olive thread which let me stitch both my stems and leaves at the same time, a huge time saver.<br />
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Stems were my normal small stitch but changed to one that does a double stitch on the outer edge for the leaves and also used a larger setting.<br />
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Kept to my planned colours for the bell flower and the lavender was a $2 scrap that I had purchased on the Thurs, just the right shade. Rethought my orange flower as had changed the cornerstone colours on the last border and the bright orange just didn't work but this multi colour batik did.<br />
Had trouble finding the right center until I tried this red and yellow combo which gave a real pop to it.<br />
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Tried out a candy coloured thread for the flower and it worked a treat, stitched with a double stitch and every stitch became a different shade, This is a Mettler thread and just love the short colour changes with their threads. In the center I did two rounds of stitching with the yellow thread and have got a feeling of texture to it.<br />
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With the second corner made it was time to add them to the center. Thought about this for a bit and decided to add the corners first but only stitched each side as far down as the first flower then took the diamond panel and checked its positioning as crucial it lined up with the previous border. Diamond panel was cut to size but had left extra length on my applique panel for any adjustment necessary.</div>
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It went together perfectly using a simiar method to the last border, matching and securing the center and the half square triangle ends before stitching. narrow strips of fusing for this rather than the glue I have seen Esther use on one of her tutorials, also how I did my final placement on the last border.</div>
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Did this for the center and both ends then pinned the rest of the border into place and stitched.<br />
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Before I added my border I had a decision to make as when I made my center I used purple triangles at the base of my vase, thought this emphasised the vase shape but as time has gone on it looked more like a mistake so decided to change it. </div>
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Wasn't undoing everything so unpicked the applique stitching I had done from the seamlines and fused a new triangle in place and restitched the edges. Now happy with the center.</div>
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Only the last corner to finish stitching and then I can bring DH up to date ready for the 15th.</div>
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1st July woke early and went to see what Esther had given us for Part 6 of Secret Garden, not there and it was late afternoon before I finally received it. What a gorgeous block it is, SG is becoming more beautiful as the months go by. Printed out the pattern but no time that night to make a start and in the morning there is an update so very pleased I hadn't started. Printed out the update and made my first block and was so pleased with it.</div>
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Background is a fabric I bought for the modern quilt I have just started, was having trouble finding the right fabric and a piece of this was on the bench and when I tried it just had to use it.</div>
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However, there was a niggle that stayed with me espcially after Esther asked on my group photo was I making my block smaller ? am reducing the pattern but because of the update kept checking and rechecking and it seemed perfect. 4.30am the next morning it came to me, I hadn't used the templates but had traced from the pattern block, which pattern block though!!!</div>
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In future will bin incorrect pages immediately as had used the wrong pattern and my applique was a fraction small.</div>
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Not a large amount but you can see from the lines that the first block on the right is well inside the lines and the outside curve is a different shape. Not sure if it would really matter but it just might so my first block has been unpicked and remade as am not sure how much background fabric I have to spare.</div>
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Don't seem to find the time to sit at the computer at present so once again a few weeks since I have blogged, this week its catch up time.<br />
Luv Shack is finished, Yay I am over hearts for the time being. Kept my quilting really simple as wanted this throw to stay soft and cuddly, had planned on only stitching around the hearts but once that was done it did need something else.<br />
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Doesn't really show up but I used metallic gold thread and stitched different sized hearts in all the open areas, they catch the light and lift the background a little. My hand eye cordination is not great so made freezer paper templates to make sure I got regular shapes and it worked well.<br />
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Borders got twin wavy lines sort of peplicating the flight of the butterflies.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">First time I have made a quilt reversible and it worked out great, Used matching orange thread top and bottom for my border stitching so shadow butterflies that just blend right in. My only concern was with making the center of the back larger than the front my butterfly stitching does go onto the red strip but it is only some of them and its balanced all around so looks fine.</span></div>
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Have also made up the diamonds for in the next border. Not sure how it will look having my diamonds on both a light and a dark backgrond but its the only way I had enough of either of my fabrics. Know my diamonds are the right size and have placed them according to the quilt plan with plenty of extra fabric for trimming to match the applique panels which I hope Esther gives us tomorrow.</div>
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Was an easy calculation to get the 75% measurement of 3 inches for the finished size of my blocks but harder to get my cutting perfect. After a couple of test blocks this is my first one. Had been dying to start using my contrast fabric and it looks as lovely as I had hoped. Esther says we use nearly two meters of this fabric and I for one can't wait to see how we use more of our contrast fabric.</div>
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My leaf fabric a friend brought me back from Aust just before part 5 came out, it was the first fabric I thought of and it looks great, just wish I had heaps of it to use in other places but unfortunately I don't and what I have doesn't have a name on it or I would try to get more.</div>
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With my blocks made just had to try them out and see how they look against a large block.</div>
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Know they aren't for surrounding these blocks as no where near enough of them but has let me see how the colours work together and I am thrilled. Haven't used dark blue anywhere else yet it seems so happy with my other colours. Now patiently waiting for 1st July and part six.</div>
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While staying with my friend in ChCh I came across a magazine is she is getting and was very taken by the quilt on the cover.</div>
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Was talking in about it at the Thursday group and saying I would need 5 purples and 18 assorted fat quarters of greys to make it, suddenly the counter was full of fabrics so now I have another project for when I want something to do. Have made 20 blocks so far of the 100 I need to make an 80" x 80" quilt, pattern called for 144 blocks finishing at 96" square.</div>
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It actually is a very simple pattern to make so long as you get the block colours in the right sequence, something I have yet to perfect!!</div>
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Am hoping the two fabrics with the touch of Pinky Orange give pop to the quilt when it is all together plus the grey fabric with a touch of lavender and little black cat faces is my hero of the greys so am trying to use it once in each block. It is wait and see until all the blocks are made to see if it works like I hope it will. No rush as this is my fill in project. </div>
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Back on my sewing table at the moment is Heart's Desire, another wonderful pattern of Esther's that back in 2011 was a mystery BOM and has been sitting for about eight months waitng for me to finish the quilting. With luv shack finished I was in the quilting mood and have made steady progress this last week,</div>
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Ages since I blogged, life just seems to get in the way or is it quilting, not sure but have been busy and just had a few days in ChCHh as well. Party for a great friend celebrating his 65th birthday, Steve only stayed a couple of days but with four brothers and three years since I had visited them I stayed an extra few days so that could catch up with everyone, especially a couple of very close girlfriends.<br />
part 5 of Diamond HIll came out just before I left and Esther had gone to great trouble to give options for making the diamond borders. Being me I had been quietly working away on these borders since month one as knew I wasn't going to piece them but applique them to the sashing strip. Having the picture of the finished quilt the calculations were simple but decided to cut my strips at 3" wide and trim after stitching them - just in case!!!<br />
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When I bought the sashing background (stonehenge) thought it was in the perfect tonings to go with my diamonds and it is, it tones right in, so much so that the diamonds lose their definition.<br />
Diamonds would have been perfect against my block fabric but had fallen in love with what I used for my blocks and even though there wasn't enough for the sahings was determined to make it work.<br />
Had cut all my sashings so was not letting it go to waste so played with threads to highlight the diamonds and have used a variegated 12wt thread that has the same colours as the diamonds. In hindsight a solid burgundy might have been the best choice but it looked too bold at the time.<br />
Placing the diamonds was the fiddliest bit, stitching was a breeze as zigged and zagged my way down one side and then back up the other and presto they were done.<br />
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When the sashings were only around the blocks I was very uncertain about them but the addition of the dark strips made them start to pop. Thought I would have to wait for part 5 for the central star but suddenly realised it was a Lemoyne Star that was in a foundation piecing pattern book.<br />
Size was almost perfect with only a slight enlargement needed to get my pattern<br />
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My plan was for an orange and yellow star but decided to use this gold fabric instead so green became my contrast. Cut and layered my pieces so the green was on top and I could stitch the edges continously. My half square triangles are pieced, just stitched afterwards.<br />
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Yesterday I added the next diamond borders and have the top cornerstones in place.</div>
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Last two cornerstones today and will be up to date again.<br />
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Have been spending time on Luv Shack the last few weeks as well and progress has been good.<br />
Decided to use butterflies on the border, went with the ones that toned most with the border so as not too in your face.<br />
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The half inch red strip just brings the fabric to life and its surrounded by a brillant sunny day, what more could anyone want..</div>
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Thought about the quilting problems I might have matching up the borders so spray basted my backing to the batting first and stitched just inside the red border before turning it over and placing the top. Also made the center of the backing slightly larger than the top so could position the front just inside the stitching line. So far have stitched around nearly all the hearts, with dark grey thread on top and fawn in the bobbin my quilting is working out fine.</div>
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So thats what I have been doing the last few weeks, hoping to get this finished or very close to by June 1st when the next part of Secret Garden is released as am dying to find out what comes next and whether we use our contrast fabric or not, love mine and have fingers crossed it will work.</div>
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On a roll at the moment, block four of Diamond Hill complete and have been adding hearts and more hearts to Luv Shack. Having no set idea what to put where so decided to start filling in from the bottom and see what happened.<br />
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Used my camera at this stage with small hearts only fused in place, happy with how it is coming together apart from the bottom center heart which is too light and the orange one just above it, Changed these, stitched them down and carried on filling and stitching.</div>
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Pretty much what I had been hoping it would look like though not quite as random looking as I wanted I am a organised person which is probably why couldn't get out of my comfort zone. It is a throw not a wall hanging and my friend doesn't know they were meant to be random.</div>
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Next was the border, had a real problem finding something to go with it but had been thinking in the wrong direction. The sit and sew group made some suggestions last week and they seem to work.</div>
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First was to add a red peeper strip around the quilt. </div>
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Went bold with the border but it seems to work especially with the red peeper strip.</div>
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Am wondering whether it needs something on the border but not hearts as think that would be too much so am thinking butterflies.</div>
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Luckily I don't have to make a decision yet as the 1st of the month arrived on Monday and Block 4 of Secret Garden was released. Am falling more and more in love with Esther's beautiful pattern as each block is released. Each block is becoming more detailed and having reduced the pattern to 75% am finding more and more challenges in making them, with block four it is the stems, they are so narrow think I may have to machine stitch them all. While I am deciding about this - and the butterflies - have made a start on the padlock and flower.</div>
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As I said lots of detail and I don't hand stitch!! Drew the pattern onto my fabric and stitched it out with triple stitch using the zig zag eyelet stitch for the tiny circles and an embroider stitch for the arrowhead. Pencil to colour the inside of the larger circles and reverse applique for the keyhole center.</div>
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Couple of attempts for the flower, on the left is my first and I do like it but it is too dark against the other blocks so have gone with the one on the right.</div>
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Have been searching for butterfly fabric the last couple of weeks as wanting to add some to my Secret Garden blocks, </div>
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-28334171898859705412017-05-02T12:38:00.004+12:002017-05-03T10:07:02.701+12:00Diamond Hill Block FourHi everyone,<br />
Couple of weeks have again flown by and now we are in May, never believed it when I was young and being told just wait till you are older time will go so fast, it really does as won't be long and haf of this year will be gone - where did it go!!!<br />
Block four of Diamond Hill was released on the 15th April and I was ready and waiting with my fabrics as was sticking close to the plan I had coloured at the start of this BOM. So glad Esther included this page in a format that you could colour in Paint with the pattern.<br />
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Then block one, loved making this first block but after making the others it didn't seem quite as vibrant any longer so it was more stitching for this one. Restitched the yellow centers and central petals with double blanket stitch to make the edges more defined using variegated thread on the pink petals to match with block three, lower petals left untouched.</div>
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Feather stitch has given them a lift.</div>
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All together and am thrilled with how they look.</div>
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Now have some time until block four of Secret Garden so Luv Shack is going to get some attention.</div>
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Another couple of weeks have disappeared since I blogged, time definitely waits for no man -- or woman especially one who likes to quilt.<br />
Had a great time making Easter Blessings, Esther's free Easter gift to her group.<br />
From the start I saw the pussy willow as mini easter eggs and had a fat quarter of a multi patterned fabric which I was sure would be perfect - and it was.<br />
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Mini Eggs stitched with Metallic Gold thread</div>
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Auditioned lots of pinks and yellows for my flowers and did buy a couple of new ones as well that I thought could also work for Secret Garden, for applique I just buy 20cm strips of fabric so for the cost of a metre I end up with five different fabrics.<br />
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All stitched and so happy with how it has come out'</div>
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Last Thursday I found a fabric for my border, put it aside as thought tons of time till Easter then the light came on so to speak, there was only about 10 days to go.</div>
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Border fabric was perfect although I hadn't bought quite enough as fabric is directional.<br />
Couldn't just cut strips across the fabric which meant I wasn't able to mitre my corners as planned but it doesn't really matter. Have edge stitched around parts of the applique but have decided not to touch the background at all.<br />
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Of course the 1st of April was in the last two weeks and on schedule the 3rd block of Secret Garden arrived in my inbox. was so excited as these blocks are so lovely and this one was no exception. Esther is outdoing herself with this mystery BOM,the blocks are so beautiful.<br />
Have no idea how it will end up but having bought and read the book which I couldn't put down just know the result is going to be fabulous.<br />
First thing to tackle was the cat, having just made my rabbit thought this will be so easy but it took three attempts to be happy.<br />
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Only used one fabric for the face making the eyes with reverse applique putting a soft green behind then blanket stitched the edges with the face on stabiliser. Used pencils to shade and detail the face, adding a line of brown around the inside of the eye before adding the black with a fine marker then a dot of silver, brightened the green a little and was thrilled with the result.<br />
The pen line is where I planned to cut away my background fabric behind the body, luckily I place the body before I cut and realised I was way off.<br />
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The leaves caused me a headache initially as started making them two tone but didn't like what I was achieving so went with a single batik, used triple stitch to define the stems then added some yellow to half of each leaf. the number of leaves across the body is why I cut away the background behind my cat.<br />
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Made one of each flower in the fabrics I was thinking of using to see how they would look.</div>
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Colours decided I made up all my flowers working with 3 different pinks and fussy cutting my purple/yellow fabric. I like simple so used a slightly different green for the bases and cut them in one piece and stitching them on stabilser.</div>
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So much softer and the angular shape of the flower placement has gone completely. </div>
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Back to stitching more hearts on Luv Shack for the next few days, ideal weather for sewing as we are getting the system that was Cyclone Cook moving over us today and tomorrow with heavy rain forecast for the North Island. Whangarei is expected to be on the edge of the system but am feeling so sorry for Edgecombe in the Bay of Plenty. Stop bank failed during last weeks downpours from the tail end of Cyclone Debbie with massive flooding through out the town, now they are expected to get the worst of this weather system as well. Hopefully the repairs will hold.</div>
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Linking to Esther's WOW now.</div>
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Hope you are all having a great week, mine has disappeared so quickly but I have been enjoying myself. Thursday is my day for joining friends for a sit and sew session so last week it was time to make more hearts for Luv Shack and there was room to layout my top and place them ready for stitching.<br />
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Pleased I took this photo before starting to stitch as can see one heart that needs to move a little.<br />
My intention was that the hearts would be randomly placed and hopefully when finished and all the little hearts are added it will look random but my brain won't let me work like that, I need them to be precise and balanced so it will be interesting to see what it looks like in the end.<br />
Planned to have a week of stitching the hearts and getting lots further before Esther releases part 3 of Secret Garden on Saturday but some one said the best laid plans of Mice and Men or something like that go astray and they did for me when Esther gave us Easter Blessings on Friday. have all the Easter patterns that Esther has designed over the years but have only made one other, it was also called Easter Blessings and was 2013 project.<br />
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Pattern was for a mini quilt and I didn't increase the pattern at all ( was meant to be increased by 200%) so my finished quilt is 9 1/2 inches square and was so much fun to make.<br />
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Knew I still had some of the velvet type fabric I had used for the bunny last time, found it on Sunday and was underway.<br />
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As I was going to pad him/her I did the internal stitching with my bunny on heavy tearaway using a bronze metallic thread. Eye is reverse applique adding the eyelid afterstitching the eye itself, also stitched the right whiskers at this stage.</div>
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Seems to be coming together and with there being no pinks or yellows in my background am hoping using those shades for my flowers will make it all work.</div>
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Am heading back to sewing room to carry on. would love to know what you think.</div>
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-60496500415559631452017-03-22T11:55:00.001+13:002017-03-22T11:55:33.475+13:00Work on Wed 22nd MarchHi Everyone,<br />
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Didn't blog last week, nothing much to show as had been making hearts for Luv Shack and only had a pile of hearts and an idea of what I wanted to do as had found a free pattern online for a small wallhanging designed by Jane Spolar and I really liked the heart shape and the simple design.<br />
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Discovered that by cutting carefully and reusing the cutout shapes on a second base I could make the hearts in both positive and negative making for less waste though both hearts had to face the same direction. With my red fabric selection made plus a few others it was time to play on my background.<br />
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Playing with placement of my red hearts.</div>
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Decided to leave out the swirly bits and just use the "stems" and flowers as my accent .Although I had laid out more hearts I needed to fuse and stitch what I was happy with.</div>
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Happy so far, the gaps will continue placing hearts of this size and then look at filling the gaps with smaller hearts of varying sizes and shades.</div>
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Made my big leaves first and made the mistake of not putting it on my wall and standing back and taking a good look before diving in and stitching my bright green. There was no problem with the bright green but my darker green was too dark and was hard to see against the background. Changed the top of the leaf to the mid green which helped but didn't fix it completely so searched through my threads to find a brighter green thread that was still in the right colour family. It helped although still wish I had used the mid green.</div>
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Another issue at this point was running out of my lime green Batik, enough for D Hill but had also used it on my Luv Shack and not enough for both. LQS had one that looked identical so decided to keep what was left for LS and use the new one for the rest of D Hill. Look closely and you can see that the smaller leaves are a different shade and so is the thread as was running out of that as well.</div>
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The changes look fine though so got away with it.</div>
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Thread matches fabric too closely and the stitches created a whirling look around the flower, felt dizzy looking at it. Searched through all my threads and tucked away in a sample box found a 12wt egyptian cotton in very soft variegated lavender so stitched my other flower with that and it was so much better. Being thicker I only used single blanket stitch. <span style="text-align: center;">Happy with the result I restitched my first flower.</span></div>
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Finished apart from the vase and non of the issues making it matter any more.</div>
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Today its back to making some more hearts for my friends quilt so am linking now with Esther's WOW and heading back to my sewing room.</div>
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-65149601030339962272017-03-08T09:54:00.002+13:002017-03-08T09:54:37.892+13:00Secret Garden TwoHi Everyone,<br />
Has been a week where I haven't wanted to leave my sewing room. Esther's second block of Secret Garden is so pretty I couldn't wait to start. Knew straight away I wanted a soft yellow vase as again it reminded me of the old fashioned ceramic vases of my mother's. Had struggled to find the right yellows in my stash for the flowers in Block 1 so had purchased a fairy frost last week that I wished I had had at the time it was going to be perfect but first for the iside of the vase.<br />
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the fine Bleubell leaves were too narrow for applique so drew in with an air vanishing pen and stitched with two rows of triple stitch in a variegated thread for softness.</div>
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Thought stitching them all would be tedious but I found it really relaxing maybe it was the soft colour I was working with.</div>
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With my flowers I wanted to create a trumpet effect so decided to stitch my inner lines before ading to my block. Left ends at start and finish and after removing the stabiliser folded the ends to the back and secured them to my fusing with the tip of the iron.</div>
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For my trumpet effect I stitched lines fanning out from the base .<br />
With the padding behind there is slight vertical puff rather than the horizontal puff I would have got from stitching the inner applique edges at this stage.<br />
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Printed the photo then reversed it on my light box and traced the very well defined markings then enlarged my tracing to the size of my pattern, Amazingly the shape was very similar to Esther's bird so used a bit of both, ended up with a slightly plumper bird but he eats well in the secret Garden.<br />
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After making him I wanted stitch his eye and enhance just the wing and crest, so cut out his eye and put white behind to reverse applique it and add the burgundy ring around it.<br />
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Put him onto heavy tearaway stabiliser, no fusing or basting necessary,started to stitch and it was going so well I didn't stop. Had my photo alongside for reference.<br />
It really is just follow the flow, I didn't do the normal free motion as I wasn't going to get carried away but I loosened my pressure foot so that the fabric could move easily for stitching curves and with the size it was easy to stop and turn the work for the next line of stitching.<br />
Stayed just inside the outer edge of my fabric while stitching so that had no stitches were hanging loose or had to be cut when the stabiliser was removed.<br />
To put him on my background I added some fusing to the back to help secure him then stitched the raw edges with matching threads blending in to the other stitches with shor tcurved lines of straight stitches a bit like darning along the edges, some parts I did with little blanket stitch but then stitching over it with straight stitches. </div>
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Doesn't look bad in the photo but the bottom elements stitched out of proportion and<br />
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Checked into the group before I started and Bunny had just posted some samples she had been playing with, one I loved so back to my machine and I found one very similar.<br />
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Used a deeper shade of gold thread, made it longer and added a ring with eyelet stitch to the bottom and am very happy with my chain.<br />
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Thrilled with how it looks and it's even better when the two blocks are together.<br />
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So how am I filling my days till the 15th, My friend in Auckland that I made Frog Song for last year would like a quilt for their Bach or "Luv Shack" as they have named it. She's thinking of hearts/ bright / fun so thats my brief and the name taken care of.</div>
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When we added our ensuite I had to pack away what was stored in my then sewing room cupboards and a lot went into storage bags including all these old embroderies, linens and doilies done by my late Aunt and Mum plus some of my early quilting. All the bags came out when the hall cupboards were finished a few months ago, but this one was missing. Yesterday Steve finally found it buried in the garage, inside a spa bath we haven't installed and covered with lengths of timber.</div>
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Nothing has suffered any damage so today I'll go through everything, find it all a new home and enjoy the memories along the way.</div>
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Ran out of time to post last week as had been having such a ball with the second of the Diamond Hill blocks that completely forgot which day was which until it was too late. Think have finally got my head around DHill being bright and Secret Garden being soft and delicate so let myself go with my brights and my second block is even brighter than my first.<br />
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Decided this is the perfect quilt to let my machine applique stand out so tried out my double blanket stitch for the flowers which has a much larger stitch than I normally use. Also chose to use thrads that were slightly brighter than my fabrics to make the stitching stand out even more. After stitching the orange flower it was off to town as was not going to have enough thread to finish the block and although I had the aqua thread had no bright blue either.<br />
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Have padded my flowers slightly and with the bold stitching they really do pop off the background.<br />
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Had to really watch my points and curves with the bigger stitch, default setting is 3 length by 2.9 width so about 4 stitches from the points reduced my width for each stitch to 2.7 then 2.4 to 2.2 finally 2.0 for the stitch at the point then back out again on the other side, this meant I don't have overlapping stitches at the points. <br />
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Have taken a different approach to the vase with this block and have redone my first vase. Had appliqued my vase to the background fabric but this was making it too stiff as had fused the complete vase. For this vase I cut my strips then just fused a quarter inch at the top of each strip to hold them together then fused the top edge into place on my block and cut away the background from underneath. Won't stitch until the borders are in place so that I can stitch the triangles at the same time.<br />
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With block 2 finished I decided to play with the emboidery stitches on my Bernina, have not really used them and Diamond Hill has encourage me to play a little.<br />
Had seen a heart quilt designed by Sarah Vedeler where the applique was embellished by embroidery machine, don't have that but wondered if I could do something similar with just my stitches so made a big heart and followed the design of one of her blocks.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Well now it's Wed 1st march and I was awake super early knowing that Esther is realeasing part 2 of Secret Garden today. Last month it arrived in my mailbox at about 1am so was sure it would be there at 4am. It wasn't and I still haven't received a new email link but when I went back to the payment receipt link from a week ago block 2 was attached to that.</span></div>
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Thankyou Esther, block 2 is even more lovely than the first block, the bird sent me to the internet as my first thought was a magpie but we only have black and white ones in NZ and that didn't seem to fit. Gosh, they come in all sorts of colours and think I may have found the one for me.</div>
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Think he will go well with Lilies and Bluebells so am off to make a start on my vase.</div>
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Cheers Jenny</div>
Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13595519899099070007noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417703622597348980.post-10434852121087371282017-02-15T10:50:00.000+13:002017-02-15T11:27:50.907+13:00Secret Garden Block One redoneHi Everyone,<br />
Intended to spend the last week working on my oriental quilt but after finishing the first block of Esther's mystery BOM Secret Garden I started have serious second thoughts about it.<br />
My colouring in before I started was soft and delicate but for some reason my flowers ended up bright and bold. The more I thought the more I realised I liked my block but I didn't love it.<br />
This really threw me as my idea of a secret garden is somewhere you can go and just spend time dreaming lovely dreams and recalling wonderful memories, my block did none of that for me.<br />
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Esther had said the finished size of SG was 80" by 80" but I was surprised how big the applique pieces are, guess I was thinking Love Entwined and the hundreds of tiny bits to stitch, I pinned my block up on a diagonal like Esther's sketch page that showed a corner and my block looked so bold. Couldn't get my head around it, maybe because I was also thinking of SG as a wall hanging.</div>
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What would be the largest I would like my wall hanging, in our house probably 60" by 60"</div>
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Didn't even need the calculator for this one it's 75% of the original so straight to the printer'</div>
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First thing was to remake my flowers and basket</div>
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New flowers and basket</div>
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This time had my contrast fabric on the wall and used whatever fabric fitted my softer look, Used lots of the same fabrics but chnaged what went with them. the little dark pink floral is still in but it has a Fusions fabric with gold overlay as it's partner and pink fairy frosts joined in for others</div>
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Same Fairy Frost for the basket weave but changed background to a white FF with gold, and used a slightly deeper thread. making my basket changed as hadn't been happy with how the yellow had looked once the basket was stitched. this time I lightly padded the reverse with iron on Vilene 630 and did my stitching before adding my basket to the background, now have a slight puff to all the little squares.</div>
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Before LE I used to pad lots of my applique especially flowers so weent back to this method.</div>
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Once flower is fused and assembled on baking paper put Vilene with the sticky side down and place flower on top and draw around it.</div>
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Cut out roughly just outside the line and then trim a quarter inch inside the line. Position back on the flower and check the fit, in this case it needs a little more trimming around the top curves so that the edges will stick to the background.</div>
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Position on the fabric and carefully press just around the edges then turn over and press from the reverse to fuse the background to the sticky side of the padding, then it's ready to stitch.</div>
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A couple of things if you are new to raw edge applique.</div>
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Your machine is set from the factory to be ideal for dressmaking with perfectly even tension, you do not want this for applique or you risk your bottom thread popping or your edges puckering because you are not sewing with a straight stitch.</div>
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Ideally use Bobbinful, Seralene or any other very fine thread in your bobbin, with my Bernina I feed it through the eye on the bobbin case which tightens the tension slightly.</div>
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Prepare a sample, fuse a fabric scrap to a scrap of your background fabric and stitch with your preferred stitch blanket or zig zag. Gradually loosen your top tension until your stitch is sitting perfectly flat with no pulling. My bernina's default toptension is 3.5 but for applique it is just under 2 and even less for some stitches or different threads.</div>
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When you look at the back you will think my tension is wrong but you are not dress making and the back won't be seen when you have finished your quilt</div>
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Used a beige Serelene for my bobbin and you can see how the top stitch has been pulled to the back showing the different colours used. Can see the burgundy is just a little tight but it is not noticeable from the front. Also tie off all my ends as I don't trust my machines tie off function for applique, last thing you need is stitching that starts to come undone when you have finished your quilt.</div>
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Stitched and looking pretty.</div>
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Stitched all my flowers first as was undecided what fabric to use for my leaves, lightened my stems and used a zigzag for stitching as they are quite narrow now.</div>
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The floral still works really well</div>
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Apricot now not Orange</div>
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Decided to only use my lighter fabric for the leaves as it has lots of variation and now my leaves are smaller I didn't need to fiddle with two fabics </div>
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Lots of playing for key and bow fabrics. Stitched my circles and satin stiched the little hole before I attached the key, used heavy tearaway behind for these stitches to stabilise the fabric.</div>
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tried several different bow fabrics before decided on my contrast fabric. Fussy cut each part of the bow seperately to get the flowers but should have cut the piece over the basket to get more colourat the bottom. Couldn't resist having a butterfy for my center.</div>
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Soft and Delicate</div>
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This is what I imagined my block would look like.</div>
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Amazing what changinfg just a few shades will do</div>
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Very happy to have finished it last night as today is the 15th and Esther will be giving us part 2 of Diamond Hill and I can have fun playing with my brights, on the right quilt this time.</div>
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Linking now to Esther's WOW.</div>
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Cheers Jenny</div>
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