All most completed centre of Morning Glory on Monday night 12th March 2018
Writing my blog a day early as I may not be here tomorrow ????
Its been a week of working on making berries for a red and green quilt top I want to make, it has been on my bucket list for around 20 years LOL Finally saw one Nancy had made and that was it. Then finishing off my Morning Glory centre and adding the last stitches to block 2 of Queens Garden.
Making up part 3 of Queens Garden
where do I start? usually with making my flowers up in to a complete unit on my Teflon sheet.
making making up my stems and appliqueing them down first, then adding the flowers
My black back ground was showing through my flowers to much, so I cut out roughly a shape in light weight iron on interfacing and placed it behind the flower and it was the answer.
I was not happy with my main stem it looked to heavy for the flowers so added a decorative stitch down the middle of it and it changed it completely.
Coming together love this design so simple but oh so elegant.
Love it!!!!
In this close up you can see the stitch I did around the yellow centre makes it look like pollen? Plus the stitch I did in the stem.
Close up of the stitches.
Showing that the back ground is not black but a very dark navy with a teal influence.
Now on to Morning Glory this week.
My bird was made up of fine silk to fine in the end to use as is, so I have ironed it on to some fine iron on interfacing?
Then ironed that interfacing and the bird to some iron on fusing and then cut the wee bird out and she is now quiet stable and should wear well.
There she is waiting to be appliqued down.
a small flower left side machine appliquéd down and the right waiting to be down, showing this so you can see the stitch I’m using and the difference once appliquéd?
White petals appliquéd in pale pale mauve and the coloured petals on this one in a light mauve.
My wee bird is finally finished, my machine played up no end with the new top thread I was using, then remembered what Wendy at the Bernina shop said to me Saturday morning use the same thread top and bottom if you are having a problem with a new thread????? it worked a treat.
Finally all most completed, I’m not going to add the rest of the the BOM blocks to this centre I’m stopping here as I want this to hang as a small quilt .
In the garden this morning ?
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Look closely and you will see tiny dots on the back of the fern leaves, they are the seeds about to be dropped .
Below Bromalaide
Below Close up of the seeds
Fronds that came down down in the wind, I pick up an average of 5 a day 
Below a small heliconia
Below heliconia stunning blooms but only last about 1 week.
Stunning yellow heliconia
Mini toadstools growing on the out side of the hanging basket first time I’ve seen these in 20 years?
Below lichen
Below forgotten it’s name very slow growing here.
Heliconia
Below Heliconia
After weeks of rain then to full days of sun and a gentle breeze to dry things out flowers have popped out every where.
Thank you for visiting have written the above to link up with Esther’s WOW or WIPs .
Cheers Glenda
beautiful work and I hope you will feel better by the end of the week! thanks for your email I was glad to hear from you – such beautiful flowers I love them
Hi Karen, today I’m feeling a lot better to day,I’m back machine sewing so must be OK as I can concentrate again!!!! Garden is looking so lovely right now after 4 days of NO rain but it is forecasted to be coming back on Sunday in storms and a lot of rain!!!! Cheers Glenda
Such amazing blocks, you do beautiful work. Thanks for sharing the part about putting stabilizer behind the flower so the black doesn’t show through – great idea.
Hi Robin thanks for dropping in, some times we don’t seem to have the time to visit other bloggers and we miss out on so many lovely things that they are doing. I do enjoy visiting other quilters on a Wednesday morning but there are so many now I only get to visit around 25% then its late afternoon LOL On my palest pink petal I added another piece of stabiliser in its shape as the black was making that one petal look white. So that one petal has two layers of stabiliser behind it. I ahve also cut out thin layers of wadding 1/8th of an inch smaller in the shape of each petal and when I hand appliquéd down the petals I would tuck that wadding behind the petal shape, this gave a lovely soft 3 D look as well as stopping the black from showing through. Cheers Glenda
Dear Glenda
Your applique is looking stunning, so is your garden. Picking up those fallen bits can be a pain. Use to live next to the beach when I was much younger. Are you feeling much better than last week, I hope.
Hi Maggie, lost this week some how LOL I had so much planned but it went out the window and not a thing I planned happened! I did loose some time when the lovely book of Carolyns I won in your giveaway arrived on Monday, thank you so much what a prize to win and very very generous gift. Thank you sooo much. Have managed to work on my new block for my Red and Green quilt to be, funny how you want to make some thing but it can take years till you see just what you want to make. This happened with my Red and Green quilt, so happy to have it off my bucket list and doing it. Hugs Glenda
What a WOW post, Glenda. Everything looks fabulous – quilts, blocks and blooms. Your center is magnificent.
Thanks Angie the Morning Glory centre was soooo lovely to make, it just flowed the whole time just pure joy all the way. Cheers Glenda
Hi Angie and welcome it Spring, it is our Autumn but as we live in the Wet tropics our climate does hardly change all year round, we have a HOT wet summer and perfect Autumn winter and Spring LOL Trees are covered in blooms right now so we all suffer from asthma or hay-fever!!!! good time to stay inside and sew! Missing not working on the centre of Morning Glory I loved every moment of it. Cheers from FNQLD Australia.
Glenda, I cannot stress how much I learn with each visit here. I read and process loads, and you have been so good to answer my questions about applique as I set out to test the waters. I want you to know how much I appreciate you sharing all the nitty-gritty details for those of us who want to learn. You are delightful!
Hi Julie you are most welcome just happy it is helping some one, just wish I’d had the internet when I started to learn applqiue LOL But i was in a remote country called Papua New Guinea where there were no book shops or fabric shops just beautiful country with 12 hrs a day 6 days a week on my own plus a sewing machine and some needles and thread LOL But there was a group of ladies who meet each Wednesday morning and shared their craft and hobbies and from this group a strong applqiue patchwork group started. We made a quilt each year making up 30 12inch blocks in Candle-wicking embroidery and each design was of some thing local from flowers, animals, birds, butterflies, and houses and these became a quilt. Money went to new mums at the hospital. We use to raise around $3500.00 with that quilt! Hugs your way Glenda