Hi and welcome! 😊 I'm so glad that you're here. It's snowing In Ottawa, but it's not the heavy wet snow, so that's a relief! I have some updates and progress to share with you today.
Christmas Panel - a flimsy
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| Christmas Panel, ready to be sandwiched! |
I really, really hope that my DIL will love it as much as I do! It was so much fun to make. Yesterday I checked the backing fabric and yes, I have enough. I cut it up to fit on the back. It'll be tight but fine. Now to take out the batting and take everything to the dining room to pin it together.
Christmas Mat
I finished stitching the first Christmas mat - and had a photo shoot with my mother's Christmas teddy bear. I used green perle cotton and a red linen yarn that is thicker than perle cotton but still fits in the eye of my needle!
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| Christmas mat stitched with cotton and linen yarns |
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| More poses! |
Desert Landscape
Finally, I have also finished and given the Desert Landscape to hubby. It's now in his home office.
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| Finished Desert Landscape |
In case you're wondering, here are a couple of photos of how I finished the piece in the hoop. I didn't mention the details of finishing Sunset Over Water but I remembered that I hadn't cut the excess fabric well around the hoop, so I made sure to measure before cutting it. That did help in the finishing.
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| Cutting the excess fabric evenly |
After that, I added fabric glue (Aleene's Tacky Glue) on the top of the inner wooden hoop and pressed the fabric down. The next step was to add a piece of felt or flannel inside the finished hoop. I also wrote an inscription but managed to glue it upside down! 😂
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| Bunching up the fabric before covering it up |
What I learned
- Measuring the excess fabric around the hoop, before cutting it, made a difference to the finishing of the piece.
- Next time though, I should check that the backing inscription is positioned correctly!
- There are many different ways of finishing a hoop. So far, I think that this is my favourite - fast and easy!
- I'm really looking forward to FMQ the Christmas Panel. I'm not sure what I'll do, but it will be simple! I do enjoy stitching around elements of a panel or fabric, so that's probably what I'll do for the inside.
- This mat was stitched with running stitches going in the same direction. I'm having fun switching that around for the second mat!😄
Related links
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties - you may want to check some out, after linking below!
Monday Musings,
Design Wall Monday,
Sew & Tell, Put your food down,
Off The Wall Friday,
Finished (Or Not) Friday,
Beauties Pageant,
TGIFF,
Patchwork & Quilts,
15 Minutes to Stitch 2025,
Oh Scrap!,
Slow Sunday Stitching,
Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 561 of Free Motion Mavericks! It was a productive week! Thanks for linking up. Here are the projects from last week that included FMQ, ruler work or walking foot quilting.
Kat from Scrapbox Quilts finished up this beauty,
Crimson Christmas. She did learn that matchstick quilting takes a long time and can result in a stiff quilt. It's still a gorgeous quilt and will make a lovely wall hanging!
Deb, A Scrappy Quilter finished her first
Hip Hop Hopscotch quilt. She FMQ each whirly gig block with a stylized swirl surrounded by flower petals. What a sweet quilt!
Sandra Walker of mmm quilts finished a UFO last week. Kindred Spirit was a quilt along hosted in 2017. You'll want to read more about it in Sandra's post!
It's now your turn!😍
Panels can be hard to sew into quilts sometimes. You've done an excellent job, it's very cute! You're doing well with the landscape artworks. It's a nice change from quilting. Have a blessed week with lots of happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteOh that scene in your panel is so sweet; DIL should love it and the pretty blocks surrounding it. Of course, my real love is your hand stitching here. Love that you used wool too for some of those lines in your Christmas mat...beautiful. And your Desert landscape is remarkable! I really don't know know how you achieved that overall look. Very creative!
ReplyDeleteThat Desert Landscape is really cool!
ReplyDeleteYour holiday mat is really cute. Congrats on finishing off the desert piece, it looks really cool in the hoop.
ReplyDeleteYour panel and holiday mat are really cute. The desert piece is beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
ReplyDeleteBravo pour ton panneau, il est adorable. Bravo aussi pour les broderies enroulées, j'adore ! Belle finition à l'arrière du cadre, et tant pis pour le sens de l'inscription ;)
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