Gingerbread Men and Deco Flowers

 

 


 It took me a while but I am finally working on my BOMs for April.  See that crease in the fusible: it came from a fold and is the fusible separating from the paper.  I was really annoyed but after I drew the pieces and cut them out it settled down.   

 

 
 
 
 
 

So, with a little hunting around for interesting fabrics, April's Gingerbread Man is ready for stitching.

So finally, here is my Design Wall.  All four of my Gingerbread Men, all together.  Someone on the Fat Cat Yahoo group asked if anyone was making these so I am going to share this picture to show that, at least so far, I am and I'm keeping up.

 

 

And then, after some knitting time, I got back to BOM work.  I have the yellow fabric fused to their pieces so now I need to finish the green pieces. You can see the picture of the Deco Garden's flower for April but, as always, my choice of fabric may make mine look a little bit different.

 

I will be linking with Patchwork Times and then back to work on my BOMs. With any luck I will have them both done soon so I can start something new. :-)

 

Have a great week,  Gari

BOMs Progressing

Progress is being made on Gingerbread Man #3. All I have left to stitch down are his eyes and the white frosting on his arms and legs.

Here I am, in my sewing corner, after picking up the white thread for the frosting.  The shelves behind me are almost bare as I recently moved fabric from them and have not yet decided how to use them. The one with the thread will be used for "current usage" thread but the rest will probably be storage for machine extras.




And then I began working on the Deco Gardens #3.  After I had the fusible on the fabric I all of a sudden noticed that I hadn't "windowed" several of the pieces.  It probably doesn't matter but I like the softness of the windowed pieces.  Also, I don't know if you can see it, but she added little accent slits on four pieces. Not an easy thing to accomplish with fused pieces.

 

 

But with much effort I got everything cut out right and laid out on the pressing cloth.  Now, please note that none of the pieces touch each other.  This meant that I couldn't fuse the full layout together and then move it to the background.

Each piece had to be moved separately and then I had to fuss with it to get it looking like it was supposed to look.  Sometimes I think that these designers work very hard to make this hobby difficult.  ;-)

Anyway, this block is fused down and ready for some blanket stitching. 

 

I got a new phone this week so some of my pictures are still on the old phone which is in the studio.  Next week I will be showing some of the new fabric that I added to my stash, just in case all of the close fabric stores close.  I should be set for at least another 10 years: think I can refrain from buying more?

 

Monday I am supposed to be doing laundry and doing some house cleaning so I can get my cart moved.  But by Tuesday, if I am not worn out, I plan to be in the studio stitching away.

 

I will be linking with Patchwork Times and What a Hoot.  Then it is housework for me: you go on and have a good time reading the other blogs.  :-(