Oopsy!

Dear Janet - how could I ever doubt you - no I didn't really!!!

I started from scratch again and look at this! First I made sure I used the right Floriani product, traced onto it - turned and glued the edges with a Sewline glue stick - then blind stitched. Laundered in hand-wash, soaked for say 20 mins and hung on the line to dry. Made a little snip on the background behind the leaf, used my little dolly forceps to gently ease out the fusible webbing!

Oh, you are a Clever Little Duck, Janet - thank you - one of the nicest little girls on earth! Maybe one day I will do a more explicit tutorial for Dumbos like me!

Hugs - Lurline♥

Slowly, but Surely!

That's the way it has been - very, very enjoyable, too! I really do love playing with the pretty, bright repros - as you will notice, I do not use a lot of fabrics of the Civil War era, a little too dull for me.
I made some stems using the Clover bias maker - then reverted back to the Hera marker. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, lol! I really like using a striped fabric for stems and this is a real pretty brown by Australian designer, Michelle Marvig - soft colour and lovely in a nice texture, too. It is from the Suzani range.

Look closely at the centre - you will see a little cross made with stitches - this is how I line up the block when I trim back. I do use a blue pen at times and try to remove it as soon as possible. I have had only one disaster and that was in the days when the brown pens were around - thanks goodness it was able to be rectified!

I am not really proud of my stitches and shouldn't be showing closeups, but at least I am getting something done with my poor little chicken wings - at least I am managing to achieve nice little points still!

I have been using the freezer paper method to do my applique - sometimes the weight of the iron takes it's toll on my arm - I would love to achieve Janet's results using her method, but somehow I can't get the fibre out from the back of the shape - just had a thought- maybe I should soak it for a little while longer in soapy water - I'll try that! If anyone can help, please do.

My goodness, I haven't done a lot of talking as of late - I am having a really comfortable day today, so it is nice to chat!

Happy weekend - hugs - Lurline♥

Partial Block 1

Okay, friends, and fellow crazed ones, here is what I've accomplished thus far. The two pink leaves are just pinned.........they were the first two fabrics I picked, and I read what Pam said about "trusting my choices", but, if y'all feel they are too "soft,   please let me know.  My thinking was that the outer dots, and birds would pull them into the design. Please don't hesitate to be completely honest  in your opinions, because I truly need you to be! Hope your stitching is going well. Michele

I will say to you all that what i have see of your work it is so beautifull. I enjoy the blog an what I see

I asked Pam in a mail to let see my block of the Roseville quilt

She send me a link to do it self! and yes I have done it!!!

I will introduce myself My name is Ineke Marijnissen I life in the Netherlands

My english is not very wel ( I know that) but to speak with the words of Pam "we speak the same language with fabrics

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