This is the first block for the Just Takes 2 Block of the Month from Dear Jane and Sentimental Stitches.
An interesting block. I have never seen this pattern before. Right now I never want to see it again. I had decided to machine applique this project because I have several large projects on the go and one of them is hand appliqued. This is the first time I am using the Floriani stitch and wash fusible wash away stabilizer. I have lots to learn if I am going to use it again.
I did a button hole stitch around the raw edge using a smoke coloured polyester invisible thread with a light gray bobbin thread. My Bernina machine is the only one of 11 machines that I own that does a zig-zag stitch and I am seriously thinking I should go find another machine. I have some of the green bits stitched down but am having trouble with the tension. It keeps changing and then the bobbin thread is showing. I might start again and use a red thread in both the top and bobbin and see if that makes any difference.
The sun is finally shining brightly here in Southern Ontario after several days of cloud and snow. It is a quiet -27C. Our daughter and her husband flew home last night and I changed the Christmas music in the CD player in the quilt room.
Blessings,
Chris
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ReplyDeleteI am doing machine applique using a tiny zig zag with matching thread. It is so much easier then invisible thread and you can iron it! TRy it, you may like it.
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Lori are stitching that over a turned under edge or a raw edge?
DeleteLooks good in the picture Chris.
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