Today I started on a second wall hanging using a rust dyed panel from my friend, Anita and her husband Bill.   I asked Bill to think about a vase of flowers when he did this dye and he came up with a bunch of  wonderful designs.    Unfortunately I didn’t take a photo of the piece before I started working on it.

As I started thinking about what to do on this quilt, I was looking at a crocheted doily that my Grandmother had made and I got an idea to include a doily for the flower vase to sit on.  I wanted to try it out first, so I got online and found a few photos that might work…..

This was one of my favorites and the perspective was pretty good as well so I traced out a basic design and started to practice.

I was pleased with the design and was amazed at how easy it was to do…….

My husband suggested that I might want to use blue instead of brown, but I decided to stay with the monochromatic theme.

I also decided to make the doily a little bit bigger.

The first step was to draw the basic outline of the doily on golden threads paper and sew around the outline.  I then filled in the “shell” designs with stitching.

Next step was to fill in the  first round….

…..the the next two rounds…..

Next I used the golden threads paper to draw the sunflowers and then I stitched around them to transfer the design to the fabric piece.

The final step for the day was to remove the Golden Threads paper.  One trick that I have learned is to use a lint roller to remove the little bits of paper that get stuck in the stitching.

Hopefully I can get more time in the next day or so to work on this…..it has been a blast so far!!!!