My Garden

The stitchery designs have now been traced. I used my new lightbox, and it works very well, except that I kept hitting the on/off switch and switching it off.

Don't know how it happened, but I managed to trace one of the designs onto the back of the paper with the design on, instead of onto the fabric ... Had to do it again. Then when I went to iron the interfacing onto the backs of the fabrics it went all wrinkly ... so I had to trace it yet again!

Lynette Anderson's My Garden Button Club BOM

This is going to be my next project. It's the My Garden Button Club Block of the Month, from Lynette Anderson Designs. I subscribed to the block of the month way back in 2010. The idea was that you'd buy the wooden buttons, and get the pattern for the block free with the button purchase.

I was waiting to have all nine patterns before I started stitching, but then 2 of the patterns never arrived ... A couple of years ago I wrote to Lynette Anderson to see if they were still available, and I was able to buy my missing block patterns. 

I have the fabric and most of the bits and pieces I need to start stitching.

And last night I bought a pair of Apliquick scissors and a pack of applique paper. Not cheap, but I couldn't resist! I did resist buying the Apliquick rods though. I'm going to try the applique using chopsticks first ... but who knows I may still end up buying a pair of rods in the future!

I've also enrolled on Lynette Anderson's Hand Embroidery and Applique course on The Quilting Company website.