Abiding Garden Update

I am starting to build momentum with my appliqué garden.

One of the problems I struggled with was how to mark the designs and how to hold them onto the background while I did the hand stitching.

Previously, I had glued all of the petals together and glued the entire flower to the background. The problem was that the petals came loose as I manipulated the fabric to reach the appliques, OR (even worse), the thread wrapped around the loose petals!!

So, I needed a change of plans!!

Before placing the third flower, I put my pattern underneath and had a good look.

I am about to stitch another of the long, spindly flowers, but this one will be partially covered by the lower daisy……

This time, I decided to do a rough drawing of where the flower would be placed….

…. a VERY ROUGH drawing!!

It worked well, as I was able to place the petals one at a time and then appliqué them…

…and I quickly had the flower completed….

I did make one change for the final of these flowers. I was more careful with my marking so that I knew EXACTLY where each petal was going….

That made it much easier to place the petals!

We are flying now…… more next week!