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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!?

First I cut and pasted a full pattern and started with my frames. ?All my fabric all ready has iron on fussing behind it.

Step 2 this small circles I’m using silks for this part!

Circles are all from the same fabric but the light places tricks with silk fabrics and makes them all look different.

Thought about butterflies but could not find the right ones?

Then choose some very tiny Chines silk embroidery yellow flowers with blue satin backing and love them. ?My DGS’s partner gav3 the fabric to me how sweet is that?

Two completed Frames.

I even thought of antique buttons in my frames? ?But they were two dark and not round?

Next was to make my Catus plants, I was thinking rust or orange tones? But no these fabrics jumped out at me ?

Added some bright green flowers picking through the catus. On to??some stems each side of the catus, again not my choice in colour but the blue leaves called out loudly to me?

Two toned star flowers just fitted there so perfectly.

Placed my diamonds in to get my true felling of the block ? ?I’m so happy with how it grew, by this time it’s midnight but I cannot stop?

So two flower heads added for effect

Then two more?

A few tiny leaves this is allbeen ironed on to Teflon sheets.

My first bird is made and added, ?my blue birds we’re going to be delft blue???

My second bird is made and added, again not a delft blue LOL. But I love her.

These wee birds are adorable, how much fun I have had with this beautiful block Esther, thank you so much.

Finally finished at 1.45am?!

Next day I placed all the pieces on to a felt board till I would need them?

Finally What my Part 6 will look like on my Hold On To Your Heart quilt when I get around to appliqueing all of them to my centre of HOTYH?

Such adorable fabric, have placed a machine bobbin on it so you can see how small the little creatures are.

Red and green tartan, it is a heavy weave wool and would be soooo warm to wear. ?It’s a double weave and there is 6 metres . ?Lots of moth holes on the edges were it had been folded but as it’s a heavy weight wool it will not matter.

Bag one finished

Bag two finished also now.

He was a very viciose fellow!

Notice his long whitetail. He now lives else were?!

A very very beautiful black fine lace shawl

A wall hanging almost finished doing sashiko quilting on it?

Lying?around so I might finish it?

A finish waiting to go in the mail

A 1960s jewel box has a new lease of life for me?

It now holds prepped applique leaves LOL

Lynette Anderson’s design, love her whimsical designs she is a Australia designer.

I’m working on part 5 of my HOTYH at the moment all most finished, was hoping to finish tonight but remembered I needed to do my blog?

1930 Grandmothers garden on my day bed , ?I’ve been hand appliqueing this for years???

I accidentally iron down my pink tulips upside down!!!!! they looked like barracuda fish to me so they? have become Cheshire tulips? ?Remember my WIL is called Alice ?

Fish are slowly growing, I can not iron down more than two at a time as they just fall off in this weather with all the turning of the fabric? ?All these bubbles are machine appliqued down. I used a aqua metallic thread.

Two halves of a bag, ?just need to join these now and this bag will be finished too.

Top bag is now sewn together and ready for a new owner?

A sweet wee doily again makes a lovely wee pocket.

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

Little ?dollies make fun and interesting wee pockets for inside of the bags, there is beautiful fine crochet around these ones?

This is one of the mens ties which forms the gusset of the bag. I leave in labels for interest, even though it’s inside?

One Finished bag.

A friend gave me this partly made wool floor rug, some one gave to her, who ever last worked on it, made quiet a few mistakes in the top left corner so I will? unpick that area and start again, I started on it yesterday, ?hopefully finish it this winter? ?Even the hook was still in the box. Such a lovely floor rug to be?

Right in the middle of the photo two white cockatoos are stripping off the seeds from this palm, not to eat just stripping them off!!! they are such destructive birds and so so loud????

Repotted my desert rose tree, it’s been so wet I nearly lost it, hopefully now it’s sitting in shingle it will bounce back, those are rock crystal boulders on the top, front ones if you zoom in are cut in 1/2 and you can see the crystals?? Those paves need a lot of help to, its been so wet mould and moss grow over night?????

I just sat here yesterday avo enjoying the late afternoon sun . We have not seen a lot of sun this year????

Where is this going to take me???

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

Added bubbles as I don’t have near enough fish and it also needed some depth added to this border?

Right now 10.45pm I’m sitting appliqueing down the first stem wave, using a contrasting thread to define the eagle of the stemwave?

Close up using featherstitch to applique the stemwave down!

A special friend had sent me a flannel minky??? I Wrapt myself in it and was instantly warm and felt so special!? Thank you Nancy so MUCH for all ways been there for us??

This new cutting board is the best board I’ve ever used once laid on the table it does not move? has a wonderful surface very smooth but the fabric does not move once placed,wonderful for free motioncutting? Notice my new suction handle and the old one that just was NOT practical at All on any thing bigger than 6inchs?

I laughed when I first saw how big and heavy it was but I stopped laughing when I sucked it on to my long cutting ruler, it added so much stability to the ruler, it was so much easier to line up on my fabric. Lines up so easy then cutting is a breeze. ?This is a real glass suction holder!!! But works like a gem on my ruler, buy one if you have arthritis in your hands cutting will be come a breeze again?

First ?I went online and watched several utube demo on how I could use it, I was about to start lining ?up my 4 patch beginners and enders??so thought may be I could use my new Stripology It worked like a charm after lineing up 9 blocks the cutting was a breeze, ?you just have to put the blade in on a slight angle and slice Bingo in a few minutes I had 9 squares done?

I bought both irons home and both worked like a charm?

Both irons had a very smooth teplon finish so the iron on fussing does not stick to the iron?

in no time I had all those little leaves done

back view.

My big work table see left hand back corner up against the wall is another table so I can make this work area big enough for a king size quilt to be sandwiched for quilting?

MY ironing table which I’ve just placed a new Kingsize sheet on fold in to 6 layers, ?when they get too stained or gluey, I wash them and add a new sheet, ?I buy them from Opp Shops when I see them? ?Those two hair irons I tried out and they work so well, also great for pulling bias through if it needs pressing again?

my Free standing ironing board and small table on wheels? ? And I still want more tables LOL. Once I just had a very small kitchen tableLOL.

You sure don’t appreciate your machine till you don’t have it?

From this first darn I kept fining more and more holes !!!!!

My merino jersey was chewed up the worst, I have darned and then embroidered about 1/2 so far?

My last darn then may be 7 flowers to cover this big darn and may be 4 to finish the darn above it?Don’t be afraid to use contrasting shades of thread.? My mum all ways said make a statement when covering some thing up, make it art????

How your fabric looks after you have been cutting out fabric for fussy cutting a piece of applique LOL.

Some fabrics I hope I can use to join my WIL Centre blocks? I will need nearly 200 2 1/2 inch squares if I do it like I want too?

My old 1923 Singer now has the original belt and bits and pieces, My girlfriend who gifted me this darling old treadle was cleaning out her pantry and found them LOL. Now All back with each other? Pkt of needles and a flint brush still in there sealed holders? Even has the oil in a pkt???

My DGS’s lovely partner found these some where and bought me these two cousins as she was sure I could use the embroidery pieces in Broderier Perse in my Quilts, I dated them at around 1970’s 1980’s . ?I cut the centres?out leaving a good 1/2 inch and my girlfriend did what you see below ?

beautiful stunning embroidery.

Margaret has joined the two cousions ?together to make a shoulder bag? ?Added ?Prairie Points where I removed the embroidery plus in the seams around the outside???

she is one very creative lady?

A very young giant treefern she is about 7 years old

She now hangs over the path completely

As fast as I gurney these blocks the moss grows back after 7 months of rain the bricks are full of the moss spores?

These blocks are meant to bed a deep red?

We call these ferns Birds Nests?

This trunk has grown itself around the post and planks?

Some Merecats! ?hidding in the leaves?

This is a very very old plant, I’ve just noticed termites are building a nest around it?

Termite nest?

Cleaned up this area last week

Very little colour in the garden at the moment, just our lovely lillies

I even do flower arrangements out side in pots?

Our little local tourist train just went past at the bottom of our place.

What an artist! She is incrediable.

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

Making two 1/2 leaves, love them they add so much depth and lots of colour if you want to add it?

Drawing these ?shapes with the 3D printer templates?

All cut out and joined thanks to my 3D templates.

My Cashmere jersey? ?Have spent several hrs well many hrs!!! Mending the holes?

My merino jersey was chewed up the worst, I have darned and then embroidered about 1/2 so far?

My friend will completely cover this basket with buttons? Using waxed thread to stitch each one on!

What to do with a lovely woven basket that has seen better days?

Here I have been cleaning the duckbill drain run off from palm seeds and sand. Now it can rain again?

Sun is shining at last but sadly it was only for two days and it’s back raining again?

These leaves remind me of the big leaves in Esther’s design HOTYH?

Our local tourist train just went past, it tells me the time in the avo, one goes past at 2pm and another ?at 3.30pm?

Choose the colour bias strip you want on your work

Slither of fabric cut off right hand side of the bias strip, to do this sellertape the top and bottom to the cutting board to help keep the bias strip open?

Third strip from right is folded over and pressed after removing a?smigeon of fabric, 4th strip of bias top and bottoms again taped down with selatape and then I have carefully cut down the centre of the 1/2 inch bias tape,

5th strip from right I have pressed the centre edge (where I cut the strip in 1/2) back behind the piece I have been making. It’s just a little smaller than 1/4 inch strip now. ?last strip is a perfect ?bias the same size as Esther’s stems in Part 6, ?now to make the other 1/2 the same way, so if you are careful you can make two strips of less than 1/16th bias ?from the one 1/2 inch strip of bias.

Two done 38 more to do LOL. I’m using a satin bias strip here, but you could use cotton or silk?

You could? use Roxanne’s glue to spot touch the back to hold these tiny bias pieces in place or pin then? hand or machine appliqué down?

Finally settled on these colours. Have since added a deeper mauve?

Then it was those wee flowers, these are the colours I’m going??with, one down 7 to go?

Leaves chosen I just need to cut them out, plus cutting out 90 wee petals to make up my flowers???

Then one Bow drafted and cut out? I’ve used two shades of yellow, my back bottom part of the bow is darker to give more depth . ?My bow is made up of 7 pieces?

Getting ready to cut out my bows. Notice that the full circle part of the bow is cut through at the centre this makes it easy to cut out the centre part of the bow?

When stems are less than 1/8th they are?difficult to handle.

Making my stem templates, most of us find it difficult to draw a straight line or draw a very narrow stem shape, instead of drawing a line just dot along the line it is so much easier and then you cut through each dot ? ,I’m using a light weight plastic here for my template.

Now we try and cut out these narrow narrow stems and our template keeps moving, we need a third and fourth hand, take two tiny pieces of seletape and tape the template on to your fabric?each end of the template? and start drawing out the shape?

Now to make up 3 more?

Back of the flower head