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Machine appliqueing down one of the big border perse flowers

Did this one a year ago almost!!!!

Making?my flower fishes eye????

Threads so many threads to pull through and weave in to the back!!!!

Highlighting the centre of the flower with blue thread doing double back stitch, on a very low stitch length.

Those fish and I still have 3 more borders to do yet!!!!!

They are lovely but oh me oh my!!!!!

SO close now to appliqueing down that big flower It was left to last to save touching it all the time when appliqueing every thing else down?? When machine appliqueing I find the block get pushed and shoved so much through the machine throat????? ?SO leaving the main applqiue till last.

Using white on white fabrics, not all the same fabric but all white on white. Remember to cut slightly bigger than measurements to allow for shrinkage when doing appliqué, then cut to size when you have finished the block?

Base for the Cherry thieves, yes it’s not red, I will be adding a little colour other than Red here and there?

Start of the pieces for irononfussing machine applique, these little legs are so cute? ?Making them up as one piece rather than seperate legs.

Have ironed the legs to the body so I won’t lose them and they are ironed to the base. ?Main part of bird is not ironed down as I have the beaks, and cherry stalk to thread through his beak first .

Made up his wing separately and will iron it on to the body as a whole wing .

He has his cherries on the stalk threaded through his beak, again I made up the stalk and cherries then added them .

Slowly it takes shape, it’s taking me much longer than I thought it would.

He looks happier with his eye, that wee eye is made up of? 4 pieces all so tiny!

This was as far as I got this afternoon and tonight so my little female bird has no eye or wing, may be tomorrow morning which will be Wednesday?

Friar birds nest in the dried flower of a palm tree

Palm flower that the Friar bird has made it’s nest in but in a dried one this ones just opened .

Koru.? A tree ferns young palm just unfolding?

Most of my mornings around 5.45am start like?this, so beautiful to open my eyes and see such a beautiful sight! But this morning the horizon and valley were covered in dark clouds and mist was covering the river.

Now 15 mins later I can not see any blue sky so looks like a wet day coming up. If only we could send our rain down to Victoria and NSW where the fires are burning?? I was at the beach last week and was watching the swimmers wash them selves down on the edge of the beach under a public showers and though how sad here we can run a tap for hrs and down South they have NO water??????

One of my challengers this year is to start a centre in Baltimore, my first one so it will be a interesting challenge. Here you can see part of it over a light box, I drawing the design on to my back ground fabric. ?.

Leaves for my BA centre

For my leaves in my BA centre

For my BA centre

BA centre fabrics

I came across a box that has things in it from 20 years ago and plus. Only need to complete one more wee block and join them to make a wee Christmas wall hanging? Great to have my hanging hoist Rod that hubby made me, this large piece of black felt works perfectly as a wall board. .

Was a wee sample centre I made when learning applique in Papua New Guinea around 1993?

Then I wanted to add a boarder, so started to make Dresden plates big medium and small ?

I just kept on making Dresden plates!??using cardboard templates and all hand stitched?

More Dresden plates and started to applique them on to strips of Beautiful navy kimono fabric

I was living in Papua New Guinea behind barb-wire with a lot of time on my hands after work 3 jobs and then not able to do any work or even do? volunteering work? ?So I joined a sewing quilting group! ?This turned my life around for the next 25 years till now LOL. ?I’d been doing candle-wicking for several years and so started to teach others in PNG. ?Above is some of my sample pieces I used?

These 4 blocks were how I taught but gave them a pre pack to start with using silks for the back ground!

Teaching them to free hand draw a simple design from the centre flower and learn to make new shapes!

These were tiny broaches I taught back then ?25 years ago using brass rings and a 1/2 circle of felt .

Working an O in colonial knots and French knots!

You could keep on adding knots to make the O wider but for me this is enough?

Close up of those knots? ?It’s not difficult i5 just takes lots of time?

Then one meeting I asked if some one would show me how they made those lovely wee fabric flowers??? ?Some were made of fabric hearts some with something like petals to me back then LOL.

My petal flowers from 25 years ago!!! ?I still like making them but use washaway freezer paper now not cardboard as you see here, but still small flowers?

Then some one showed me how to make easy Drunkards path blocks with a circle and a square background?! and I had fun with those?? But my love kept going back to applqiue work? How to make a perfect heart for appliquéing on to a top or a dress?

Cut out your hearts in a perfect shape of your liking. ?After cutting out your heart shape stitch around the edge leaving only around a little more than 1/8th

Backside of the hearts. ?Slit a hole in the back area of the heart and turn the heart inside out, work the edges in a rolling fashion to get the seam to lye flat and press. Add some wadding through the back slit if you want a puffy look to your heart .

Then I decided to teach my self to make clam shells!!! Yes they were only 2inchs across and down?

Yes I made these tiny tiny double sided shells and even added padding to them till some one one showed me a very simple and fast way to make clam shells LLLOL.

Start with making a mini patchwork in 3/4inch squares

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My first HH from Inez who was going on holiday the next day but took the time to make and post me this lovely HH.

My first house from HOTYH.

It takes time changing the top threads but worth it for that look I want. flower from WIL

A shoulder bag I like to make every now and then, its practical, holds a lot when shopping? and fun to make?

Large buttons added to help the wear on the bottom of the bag plus keeps it clean when put down?

This block ended up been the first one to get its stemwaves and fish !!! WIL!!!

Finally have my machine again after 6 weeks of no sewing machine, working on appliqueing down my pansy blocks HOTYH

Sadly it falling apart just due to constant use. Some thing any quilter loves to see as it tells you it has been loved and used. I stitched down some applique that was falling off and patched a nasty piece of fabric that had parted just so worn. This is the first quilt I ever made all done by hand.

Border of Love Allways.

a couple of Mums memory blocks I was working on.

Each block was made from some special handkerchiefs given to my mum in the 1950’s!!!!

Enjoyed working on this quilt, silks and cottons.

All made from beginners and enders except the top and bottom borders!!!!

I finished!!!? ?I did not realise I’m made so many things ???

Have been machine appliqueing leaves down to day so
I can start adding hand applique grapes, Ive also been sitting watching? a TV series while hand turning those grapes. I love sitting doing hand applique in the evenings

Finally finished and on its way!!!

Made with French knots and Colonial knots!

I find this kind of work relaxing?

Silk Fabric I dyed for the pineapple topknot and big green leaves,? the light beige fabric is what I used to dye the dark green fabric,? it has a lovely silver thread woven through it.

Using seal and press to cut out my pieces from ironfussing for the pineapple topknot and base leaves ?these will be rawedge not turned. all tiny pieces are numbered or mark some way?

First I place a small teflon sheet down and I start working left to right this works for me

Slowly working across, pinning each piece as I go in place.

One completed top knot ready for the iron to seal all together.

All ironed together ready to be stored till I applique it down on to my background fabric

Just playing now to see how it will look and how I will build it on my background fabric. I made 28 of those tiny shapes that I built my pineapple from.

Add a few leaves

A few more slowly.

Pomegranate will be fun to make using irononfussing and the outer parts turned applqiue?

Bottom leaves of pineapple added, seeds of the pomegranate,? and it needed a splash of yellow, so we have a sunflower LOL .

Finally the berries! ?Now to find the time to make the other 1/2? of this blocks LOL.

Close up of those pineapple shapes ?

Nov or Christmas lilly it is commonly known as here

One of my favorite treasures in the garden it surprises me each year.

He landed on our front terrace and when I was trying to photograph him he got quiet angry, so threw a towel over him and threw him back in to the trees.

One side of the two leaves that they have stitched together to form there nest.? Start of a tree ants nest which I nearly touch, I? was pruning the tree and this was on one of the ones I cut down. They are very vestie and you do not want to get to close to them.

Its a bit like a football shape leaves are around 8inchs long and 5 across. When they? want another room they pull another leave across and attach that one and they can have up to 12 or more leaves all pulled in to make there nests .

Came to visit last night

Up close and personal, one of our local wee frogs which the garden is full of after the rain last night?

Last?nights sunset from the front veranda was very beautiful.

Such a beautiful centre loved working on this centre. Every thing just went together so beautifully.

Was a huge learning curve making this mini wall quilt those wee houses are 3inchsquare?

Such a beautiful centre designed by Esther, of course as usual I changed some of it? Used fussy cutting flowers instead of her blooms. ?Great use of ?some beautiful Japanese blooms .

Loved making this centre. These silks just glow.

Diamond Hill, I did not use this vase in the end.

Diamond Hill

Diamond Hill, I did keep this vase ?

Diamond Hill waiting for me to work on it again, a stunning design and wonderful to make. Oh to be able to use my sewing machine again.

Bleaching the paves in the swimming pool area of mould. Left hand top 4 done?

Bleaching pool decking after bleaching

Pool Decking before bleaching covered in mould from the last wet it was a very long wet! .?

Start?of second flowering.

Tree??fern.

A touch of scarlet and yellow to brighten up the garden.

Love these splashes of colour in a garden of mostly greens!

Front entrance.

Road frontage.

Entrance from road.

Garden??is full of these butterflies right now,

Thankgoodness for the pool right now, yesterday and the day before were 33C and 34.5 C!!! ?Forecasted for hotter days to come this week!

What’s right in front of me as I write my blog!

I think every morning how lucky I am to live in such a spot? Looking down to the river and across to the Kuranda Ranges.

Glorious Yellows? I dyed during the week. Its so much fun seeing the fabric change?

Spent a couple of days dying greens till I got the colour shades I liked

Glorious colours of soft silk all over dyed silk from the one? kimono.

A great mottled green for the light 1/2 of the big leave may be?

Greens and more greens in the foreground is the silk I used for all the colours I made, it’s a very pale pink mushroom colour, it’s from a silk kimono about 1930’s ?it has a lovely weave pattern so gives lots of texture to the new dyed fabrics.

Made up 3 leaves first to see if they were going to look like what my mind was seeing LOL.

Going to be a perfect foil for this tiny wee flowers!

First I traced all the leaf shapes on to the washaway freezer paper, numbered them , T for top of the leaf B for bottom, then added letters telling which one went where on the bouquet on both 1/2s. Last was a mark of 3 dots on each 1/2 where I was going to cut the leaf in 1/2 so I knew at a glance they were the middle join, when you have lots of 1/2 leaves it saves a lot of time?

Starting to iron on those 1/2 leaves I use small pieces of polystyrene to pin my pieces to as I go.

Making up my leaf shapes bit by bit so I can show you how I make them.

Starting bottom right hand side ?First step is drawing my leaf shape by placing my washaway freezer paper over the leaf shapes, it is clear enough to see the pattern under it. ?Then cut the leaf shape out and add all the reminder points on the two sides . ?Step 2 iron all the shapes to the fabric cut out shapes this is where I use those 3 dots along the seam to remind me to leave a good 1/4 inch seam allowance? ? ? ?Step 3 roll back centre line of one side of the leaf where you added the reminder dots. You can use glue I needle baste. ? Look closely at photo and you will see that the right 1/2 is rolled back. ? ?Step 4 place rolled back 1/2 on top of the other seam, it will sit snug make sure you even these parts up perfectly, glue into place or like I do baste it!? Top row? from right to left first two have been basted together.? 3rd one I have stitched the two halve together and removed all basting threads it is now ready to applqiue to my block.? ? Happy sewing!!!!

Leaves slowly been added, I was hoping to have all the leaves finished for my first bouquet but they take longer to make than I thoughtLOL.

On the right are the start of flowers for bouquet 2!

I did know I wanted it to be in the red colour tones, so I needed lots of washaway freezer paper circles a round 170 and fabrics.

But I did not have enough silks so I decided to dye some silk fabric. These are all the same fabric top right hand piece is the original colour. ?Love how the weave of the fabric stands out now I have dyed the fabric. ?Cheers

Just love this deep red piece I ended up with.

Next I need my pattern which I pinned to a piece of polystyrene so easy to stick pins in to, you need lots of fine sharp pins when working with silks.

I started to make the flower that was right at the back of the arraignment, I decided on tiny circles to solve my problem of not been able to use glue or starch when I saw Shelia’s beautiful Bouquet.

Using pins to keep each tiny piece in place

Made up a few wee circles and ironed from the back only so I wouldn’t flatten the front to much.

Next flower also sitting at the back

Making up a few more wee flowers and having fun doing it.

Slowly it grows

Adding some more colour. These circles are small but not to small to make with ease. ?I will show how I make the smallest ones easy too if I have time today. ?It’s after midnight so Wednesday has started for me Down Under.

And now it’s starting to look like a bouquet

More depth is showing now I’m loving making this beautiful bouquet finally after months of procrastination

Two more flowers to mak e before I decide my final placements it does need some yellow.

Update 10pm, I have enough tiny flowers now to complete one bouquet, now to make 70 more wee circles and a few leaves? !

You I have so loved making this wee bouquet after procrastination over it for ?months?

My bias that I will use for my stems,? was gifted ?to me by a lovely lady in France who once had a haberdashery shop and these were still in boxes in one of her rooms, I have been using them for the last 10 years and these are the last of them.

My dark purple I will use for my thick stems, pinky purple for the thinner and the brown for the thin stems. When ever I use Laure’s (DDIL) Aunty’s gift of these ribbons and bias rolls I just wish she could see the quilts they have gone in to making.

First I made my leaves All of them over 300 if I remember right? ?I wanted lots of colour in my leaves so used all two toned leaves and all scrappy.

Then it was the fun of making my rosehip heads. I showed how I made these in a earlier blog.

Then the excitement of making my blooms thank goodness there were 40 of them as I loved making them, have another 9 to go I think I just love making them.? Hope I enjoy machine appliqueing them down!!!!!.

last night I made my first 3 rose buds I needed 4 but its only 3 for to day to show you.? ?Adding the yellow inside the middle of the full blooms just makes these blooms POP !!!!

Now I need to added these to my background border fabric.

Same area different full rose blooms, most of them are different, Ive made extra pinks for my basket arrangements.

On my verranda this morning to show you how I will build my HOTYH corners of the final border.? thank goodness it was not windy LOL

Leaf is made up of two halves. I cut my template? shapes out off 4 layers of freezer paper for my templates normally? but one of my DS has a 3D printer and made me two templates on his computer and that made life so much easier to make 350 of each of these shapes!!!!!? One 1/2 I add a good 1/4inch on to the middle of? it, so one 1/2 is the same size as the pattern the other 1/2 is quiet fat,? this extra 1/4 of an inch slide under the normal piece.

For you Dianna You can see a mixture of finished leaves. At the top left and right are cut out leaves from scraps of irononfussing fabrics,? ones on the right are the same shape as the leaf pattern, left all have that added 1/4 inch to the middle of the leaf.? middle of the top row right hand side,? two 1/2s facing each other, left side, right? 1/2 is lying on top of the fat leaf this is how it stays till I press it, my leaf is made!!!!!? ? I did discover that good quality hairstraighen irons? make great irons for ironing these leaves??????

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

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

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

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

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

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

TTwo blooms down Yayyyyyy I’m so happy.

now to play with them before starting two more !

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

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

Sashiko quilting this quilt.

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

Have to start the blog off with some thing positive so will share this beautiful palm with the sun kissing it. With our beautiful blue sky behind it.

Just was not happy where this was going too. Just did not excite me? You can see the original design top left hand corner, bottom left hand corner how I was going to make these slashed pieces up!!! ? Top right hand corner two sets sewn together to make in to blocks? ?Bottom right hand corner 5 or 7 sets to sew?

I have unpicked ?all these pieces?

Trying to put the slashes back in order to the original lay out

Finally back in place but some have been cut shorter how will I solve that problem? Was thinking 1/4 circle but that will be too solid?

Who says YES??? Less is best???

Look at that lovely soft blue lace?

But look up close? ? ?See NO lace but tiny stitches in back stitch to give the illusion?? of lace then the random Lazy Daisy stitches. How incrediably beautiful is that ???? Sue you have the patience of a Saint????

Built to help bend my knee

In the bent position

Covered with a sheep skin.

Getting that leg bending? From this position the foot moves towards me and bends the knee with out an weight bearing

Icemachine, pad that is strapped on to the knee and tubes from Bunnings and a car Eskie filled with ice water

Inside eskie is a fish pump to pump the ice water through the knee cover it’s gives so much relief to the pain in the knee. Great having a macanical hubby, he made both this and the knee bender for me. Plus the wee skate board for using while sitting in a chair , my foot rests on it and I push it backwards and forwards to help bend the knee.

My bike treadle and a tiny skate boardLOL.

Wearing hubbys hat?

From Inez who was going on holiday the next day but took the time to make and post me this lovely HH.

Oiling and cleaning a little EQ 10 Huskstar hoping I can get it running again? A friend visited me on Monday and gifted me the lovely roses.

Buried under my 1930’s GMFG and my little dog is too, ?doing some hand quilting inside those tiny hexagon. I’m quilting inside each one.

Sashiko quilting my Mothe rs and war quilt when I can stay awake?

Close up of one of the flowers from my GMFG quilt

One day Iris, these are little self plantings and yesterday there were around 40 of them flowering, they all flower within a week of each other? Then it’s all over

Stunning red Lilly that all ways gives me a great show!

One day Iris, ?great colours for a quilt!? ?Cheers

Native orchid it has been here the last 23 years never seems to get any bigger or smaller?

Last of the cosmos but still looks lovely in the late afternoon sun?

THe background is cut from a 1950’s dollie and the embroidery is lovely,the. The hearts and corners are cut from a 1970 1980 serviete that’s been hand dyed by Val very lovely. ?My mum used these and I still use them?!

A Beautiful KF heart I love his colours but have not worked that often with them, but I did a weekend retreat with him on knitting in NZ about 35 years ago and I admire him so much, I learnt so much about colour that weekend?

I love the back ground in this wee heartblock, ?Nancy has raw edge machine appliqued these wee pieces. ?Again it arrived in the mail when I needed a good boost.

Then just when I was in so much pain one after noon Mary’s lovely hearts ?arrived to make me stop thinking about my self, I remembered using the lovely Japanese blossom in one of my quilts and just loved that fabric.

Yesterday on our way home from having a brain MRI ?we stoped to clear the mail and there was this lovely Heart made from the Pohutikawa flower, ?this is from a tree that grows on the coasts of NZ and is often called the Christmas tree as it flowers mid summer and that’s Christmas time in NZ. So it brought back lots of lovely memories and made me for get the pain.

Looking??down the veranda from my bed.

Looking to my right from my bed, down to the river and across to the range, just beautiful.

Hubby brought my iPad in to the hospital at 8pm now 10 pm sitting up on my hospital bed about to start to make a mini mini logcabin. I cut the strips on Monday, had my operation for a full knee replacement yesterday afternoon Tuesday, now Wednesday??? ? The medical world has come a long long way in the last 10 years where knee replacements go???

I Did manage to all most make one block but eyes, hands and mind were not working well together LOL. ?May be tomorrow will be better? ?

This is a quilt for me to sleep under. ?I loved making it, I’m loving quilting it and I will love it on the double bed?

InnSashiko quilting using DMC 5 threads , plus 3 threads from a DMC normal embroidery thread on the large flowers. ?Thread is a very deep maron colour and shows up beautifully.

Close up

My first triangle all most completed. ?It’s taking me 5 nights 8pm till 12pm to quilt one triangle.

Two triangles done 6 to go LOL.

Working now on a corner of the blue wool kimono, it’s not showing up like on the plain colour but it will be nice.

Sashiko stitches are a tiny bit bigger here than on the maroon?

Close??up of the lace, it is about 4 inch’s deep?

Sandra’s cottage chair, have rubbed it back now it needs a good clean with bleach after the long wet we have had.

Seat is carved to fit around your thighs and it’s an extremely strong chair for sitting in, Not flimsy like many chairs today?

This is a wooden chair that came from the farm in NZ I think, Rods constantly reglueing that back in??? ? It’s Rods every thing chair but a chairLOL.

Love full blooms for Borderie Perse?

Fabrics for?applique each piece is 10inchs square.

Borederie Perse fabric

Fillers such lovely colours

Starting to double blanket stitch down my tiny birds they are less that 1inch square?

Tried a few colours before I finally choose this one to applique them down.

First cut squares with a good 3/4 inch around the circle shape.

Draw a circle 1/8 th from the edge of the circle Then do a running stitch on the line around the circle make sure those stitches are only 2 or 3 threads or it won’t work if your stitches are big, I use a number 11 needle and silk or bottom line thread.

running thread starts and ends behind the fabric.

cut away the fabric only leaving a scant 1/8th of fabric outside the stitches.

use some thing that is smaller than the circle to hold the template in place then pull thread in and around it.

Pull thread tight and gently remove the pen or pencil and slowly pull in thread and sew a knot . Gently work in to a perfect circle with you needle and fingers?

Back of the tiny circle

Those tiny circles are appliqued down here.

Starting to build my wee houses?

I wanted a pink and blue house that reminds?me of the lovely memories I have of the South of France and Italy.

Slowly they grow.

These wee house s are twice as big as I thought they were so much easier to make.

Love how the nestle in the green leaves.

Finally I have two wee houses beside each other

Placing my wee houses on to my centre fabric.

So lovely to see these wee houses in there place of HOTYH.

Love my wee houses. Thank you Esther.

I started by ironing down my blue house ?first. ?Then machine appliqued all the otter edges. ?I have a light weight interfacing behind my backing fabric centre.

My perimator of the wee house all appliqued down and starting on my shutters. ?These shutters remind me of opening my bedroom shutters early in the morning in Italy to hear the church bells ring out at 6am . What a lovely memory.

JbbEndless threads as I use lots of different coloured threads so have to constantly stop and start?

I’ve just spent 1 hr pulling the shutter and window threads through to the back and weaving them in the back? Still another 2030 mins need to do the top left window.

Close up of one of the wee windows and shutters, the little bottom frame is 1/8 wide? ?I stitched a very tiny straight stitch out and back in dark maroon for each shutter line. ?These wee shutters are 1 1/2 inch’s by 1 inch !

Starting to add my leaves this is the fun parting seeing it grow in to a wee picture.

My stems are in a deep maroon in ?feather stitch, it is the ?smallest stitch I could make it

It’s starting to look so sweet! But ohh those endless threads to pull through again LOL

Threads be gone so I can see down more leaves. I pulled them through last night 1 1/2 hrs!

II wove all these threads through last night. ?So I won’t get any tangling to day when I do a double blanket stitch around some of the leaves.

I managed to do the edges of 12 wee leaves in blanket stitch and attCh 7 more leaves by using feather stitch for there veins. ?Now 2 1/2 hrs of pulling threads to the back and securing them down? ?

It’s keeping me warm as I write this??? The panel is from an antique ?roll of fabric which would have been used for lining a man’s jacket. It’s made off 100% wool extremely fine weave.? For my borders? I’ve used heavily woven silk fabric from Obi’s which is sooooo difficult to stitch through, even with my special Japanese needles? ?So each stitch takes time?

I’m doing sashiko stitches and so far have not broken my needle, it they were English needles I’d have given up as they would of been breaking so often?

I started ?with a pile of pulled reds from the lightest to the darkest for my sashing to join my WIL blocks

LOts were discarded as the tones were wrong, ?all my blacks were different too?

This was my first lay out, with the lights starting from the centre but this did not work with my out side light border, so I swapped it around bing it worked?

Some times you have to see the whole picture to make sure it’s working?

Machine appliqueing down my flowers

Back of my work

It takes time changing the top threads but worth it for that look I want.

Finally I add the last colour pink on the outer ?petals and the yellow and orange to the centre of the flower and my flower is finished?

all though it looks so inviting the water is so cold to me at this time of the year? ? But my friends from down South jump in no problem? ?

MY plant died waiting to find a replacement for this large pottery?inthe mean time I have made a stone flower??

where I’m sitting right now looking at this view!?