My Garden

Yes - I found the box with one of the missing colours I need for the stitchery. They smell a bit musty ... Not sure why I never put these onto spools, but I will do ... eventually.

Did a bit more stitching yesterday (nothing today), but I've lost another one of the colours ...

It's been gloomy (and very rainy) over the past two days, so haven't been in the mood to do much today.

My Garden

I spent a couple of hours ironing all the fabrics for My Garden this morning. Some of the pieces were more damaged that I'd thought, so I think I'm going to have to re-think my first choice of 12 fabrics. I was going to start cutting up the fabrics for the patchwork, but instead I started on the embroidery.

Instead of working on each of the blocks in turn, I've started by stitching the outline. I want to complete all of the backstitching first, and work my way through all the designs, leaving the satin stitch for last. 

I'm trying to keep my stitch length uniform, but not quite achieving it. It looks a little bit crooked, but that's how it's meant to look - that's the way the lines are drawn.  😊

Apliquick Scissors and Hugs 'n' Kisses Applique Paper

Received these today. Haven't done any more work on My Garden, but hopefully tomorrow ...

My Garden

I decided not to wait for the applique paper, and instead I traced the designs onto the glue side of some Wonder-Under, and have cut out all the pieces, ready to do the prep for the applique.

My next step is to choose the 12 assorted fabrics and to cut them out into the required sizes. Will try and do that tomorrow. I went out today and so haven't had as much time to do much in the way of crafting.

Later ... I think I've now picked the 12 fabrics I want to use ... subject to change, of course!

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!

My Garden BOM

I've got my stitchery fabric cut out and ready to trace the designs for the embroidery. I had another cream fabric which I thought I could use, but there was only enough for 8 squares. So I've used some of the seeded cotton I bought recently, and which I used for the background of my Dolly Madison in Texas throw.

Got my pack of fat quarters, to choose which 12 fabrics I was going to use, and I I found this ...

I thought maybe a moth? But no, I think it's more like a spill of somethig corrosive ... It's like that on several of the fabrics! 

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.