I decided it would be a good idea to start a brand new Christmas present … an applique tree, for g’ness sake. Am I mad?
This is a request from my lovely friend who's coming to stay for Christmas.
So … I started off ironing fusible onto 10 different scraps of fabric … and then cut a seemingly infinite number of leaves (I wanted to have some left over to ‘bank’) My sister-in-law cut out tons when she and my nephew stopped by on their way home from Lunnun. Lovely treat. The visit!
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It's his birthday on Christmas Day, and he brought me this beautiful linen and cotton lace tablecloth after he saw the tree I did for the MMM swap earlier this year ... Sorry about the cold dark winter light! It was about 2pm!
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He has a really funky 70s orange and green bedroom .... I'm not sure if it's going to be a quilt or a bed spread yet ... Realistically I need to detach the lace for what I want to do ... but time is of the essence here!
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I've added more leaves to the bottom two sides since these photos ... it looks a little out of balance here, I think.
I’m going to hand stitch with perle through the middle of each leaf, rather than sit at the machine and go round the edges … I want to use different colour threads, so it would be a real faff. This way, I can sit in front of a movie tomorrow and get the applique finished.
I quite like the idea that they’ll be fluttery when the fusible washes out … maybe? hope so.
Amidst all this, I’m still finishing off three sets of placemats, not one of them complete yet! LOL!
So, anyone else just started a ridiculous project? Or are you all properly sane?