Blog 464
And finally, my room is finished! The design wall has been
recovered with thick sheets of polystyrene and a flannelette sheet has been
stapled over the top. I won’t be bending lots of pins any more as I used to with
the old cork wall. And then, like an artist finding it difficult to start on a
new canvas, the bare space was suddenly unnerving so I quickly pinned on some
work in progress so it wasn’t so threatening!
I have had a busy week with one thing or another so progress
on the Xmas wall hanging has been slow until today! I pinned the poinsettia
fabric to the RS and sewed all around the petals where I wanted this fabric to
go. I also mistakenly sewed round one of the under petals which I want to be a
darker red. This wasn’t a problem really as it was just a case of taking out
the offending stitches!
I used the reverse of the chosen fabric for the under petals
so that I didn’t introduce another patterned fabric into the design. I chose to
use a free motion method rather than a conventional foot for sewing the shapes.
This meant that I didn’t have to rotate and unsettle the background fabric at
all during sewing.
Reverse of fabric
Under petals
Aura
L edge
Background
Here is the sequence in building up the rest of the picture.
I used a sheer fabric with sparkly stars on for the background and another
shiny fabric for the centre of the flower. Note also that I sewed along all the
extra lines of the pattern where they radiate from the aura of the candle. This
is now ready for the black biased binding.
Extra lines
Completed picture
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