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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

I thought Spring was here

We've been seeing buds on the trees & the Japanese bush honeysuckle is starting to turn green, but...
Just a little snow.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Another Baggo sCraps challenge

Heres what I got-all smallish pieces & I wanted to do applique, so I added solid black & gray. Finished piece 39" X 32". I started with a background piece that I thought was big enough that I'd end up cutting it down, but I didn't need to. My first plan was to make a basket of flowers. I made the basket using all the black background stripe & decided that it wasn't big enough, so my next thought was "OK, put fruit in the basket & make a vase for the flowers. There was a white piece of velour with a bit of a shimmer. I only trimmed the selvege off & the shape looked like a vase. I then added leaves & flowers. I used 0000 Nymo (hair fine) to machine baste all applique pieces. I then quilted around the pieces with the long arm. Finally, I satin stitched around each applique piece. I used gold piping as an edge.
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