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Sweet blue flowers for Hope’s first border

Building the flowers on tephlon sheets

I keep changing my mind

Newly washed antique indigo Japanese lengths of fabric having  been brought back to its glory after soaking in nappy san . Most of the yellow aging has gone.

Width of this woven cotton fabric is just over 14 inch’s so have cut it in to 14 inch squares so I will have no waste.  Cut my back ground the same it’s made of Japanese woven wool .  Hand woven fabrics.  Fabric would have been stamped with a block print covered with rice paste before dying. This stoped the blue indigo dye from penetrating the fabric after dying it would of been washed till all the rice paste was removed and there was the beautiful design?   This fabric is over 100 years old.

The cotton fabric is very thin and frail. So I’ve added a 100% cotton batting  and hand quilting it in sashiko or big stitch

Using the wool backing is giving the blocks a nice weight and will be very warm.

Have used a fancy machine stitch to anchor down the turned edges.

Pinned and been hand sashiko quilted.

Sashiko stitch’s showing up at the back.

One block completed now to find time to make up the next 23?!

Indi cut all the pieces out and made funky roof shapes .

She Placed all the pieces of fabric,

She could just visual how they would come out?

Adding windows, doors and funky chimneys?

I was just in awe of what she had made aged 7

One happy proud wee girl.

It’s wonderful seeing my prep work growing again on my Hope Centre, as it has been put aside to finish another WIP!!!!

Now its on to applqiueing down my bows stage and making up my doilies I need 4?  ???

My Doilies as I made them from the top.  I ironed on some light weight interfacing then shrunk one of the embroidery stitches  and sewed my hatch cross lines.   cut out my shape,  added my tiny applqiue drops and scallops which are cut out as one piece from iron on fussing fabric!

Then over to the machine and appliqued those tiny pieces to my centre using a double blanket stitch, love how it makes the wee doillie Pop.  Now to make 3 more!

I couldn’t wait to make my wee dolls, I think they are so so cute, their dresses are made from irononfussing but their heads are hand made and have a tiny bits of wadding behind them to  make them 3 D.   I’m working on one corner at a time most of the time!!!!!  My fusing is lifting off because of the high temps and humidity, so I iron on one piece, machine or hand sew it down, then add another piece of applqiue, its slow but it works????

Love how the machine applique and coloured thread change the look of the fabric?.

4 bows were all most completed and then on the last 8inches to go disaster hits me? My machine chewed up the fabric after unpicking all the chewed thread my edge of the bow was badly frayed, I could not cover that edge with machine applique?

I cut out a slither of the same fabric and ironed it over the frayed area?

Then machine appliquéd as usual, it has covered 2/3 rds of the slither but I needed to anchor that other part of the slither  some how to stop it lifting in the first wash!!!!!

Out with the DMC embroidery threads, using two threads and a number 10 long milliners  needle I made up 3 tiny tiny bees

My wee bee’s look like they ahve just landed LOL   Disaster avoided I think???

First ?I made Sue’s Bonnet I added Blue French knots to add a wee touch of colour to the lace.  She is now waiting for me to finish sorting out what her dress is going to be !!!!!

He lives on our veranda, catches flies, mosquitoes, and small house spiders.

He shed his skin 3 days ago. This is it?

What I hate about the wet season, our lovely white beams covered with mould? They have to be wiped down with a strong chlorine to kill it?

Golden orb spide you can see his lovely gold web in blobs next to him. He’s living in the car port,

Crucifix spider. Also lives in the carport!

Golden orb spider build the most complected webs, so fine and so large.

Stag plant, Have just removed the rope hold it to the palm, his own outer leaf is holding him to the trunk now.

Glorious evening colours green, purple and pink, how well they go together.

Glorious!!

It started to rain just after I went out to take photos

Rain is coming in across the river.

This afternoon I played with my lovely Hope centre making up my first complete 1/2 circle and 6 dolls for my first corner I’m slowly machine appliqueing?   Will make up the other 5 heads tonight if I can stay awake!

This is what I need to make up and 4 of them they are only 3inchs by 2inchs!!! It is glued to cardboard so I can make my templates.

This is how I made up my 1/2 circles before adding the tiny tear drops and loops. I’ve added a very tight machine embroidery  stitch to give me the diamond back ground shape.

Finished making my background  1/2 circle.

My loops cut out in one piece of fabric !

Completed making up the tiny pieces now waiting to be machine appliquéd to my centre, need to make the other 3 now.

My loops are going to be made with of irononfussing fabric so made a template so I can cut them out in one piece.

Top is my template to make up the loops in one piece of fabric!

I worked on appliqueing down these leaves till I ran out of thread on the weekend and had 4 leaves to do. Managed to pick up the last small reel of thread yesterday which will be enough to finish this block, then I can start hand appliquéing down those wee circles.

Close up of those leaves which are big around 4 1/2 inch’s  square.

Will add another dark strip around this about a 2inch strip. Ended up scraping this idea

And this one.scraped it !

Went with this frame which was a nightmare as the two silks taught each other every 1/2 inch of the way, so had to pin every 1/2 inch!!! I bent at least 30 pins trying to push them through these tightly woven silks.  Then I stupidly added a flange to make it 4 thicknesses of silk?!

Finally I finished those 4 mitred corners and I could breath!

All hand basted ready for machine quilting in the ditch around each block.

Then it was a couple of hours pulling out all those threads!!!

All machine quilting done in the ditch. Time to do the hand stitching in the evenings now which is pure enjoyment.

Now going to hand quilt those wee houses by hand have stitched the pink house and it was fun seeing it pop as a wee 3D house

I made around 37 of these 25 years ago when living in PNG as a friendship swap, blocks were 6 1/2 inch’s square. I all ways wanted to make a quilt up of Sue for my self so may be I will start today, I’ve kept this one from back then to remind me of the fun I had making those Sun-Bonnet  Sue’s . I made them when I started to learn about patchwork!!!

Made up my pattern yesterday and playing with my first one this morning.

Looking more like Sue, I all ways give Sue boots with heels LOL.

Have boxes of lace so many of them will have lace!

May be she will look some thing like this by tonight?  This is all just pinned this morning.

Circles were some unfinished ones I bought online from the USA many years ago 1930 fabrics some shirting and some feed sacks, many I unpicked and redid.  I completed them and then added the bow ties with some 1980 1990s fabrics, added a red flange then the border.  It is going down to be quilted and given to a fire victim in Victoria.

This one I made from NZ and Oz fabric designs, then added all the interlocking rings. It is also been quilted and bound by other quilters and been donated to a fire victim.  I hope they bring a little warmth and comfort.

Still trying to find out which butterfly he will become?

Night moth

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Another wee critter found on my work table.

Yesterday he was attached to my car and had to remove 4 strands which I attached to the corner post of the carport. When I came back home he had rebuilt this beautiful fine web?

Look closely and you can see him spread across his cross !

A splash of yellow

Can you believe this is a flower ?

If I look closely I can find tiny beautiful native flowers.

Female birdwing butterfly she would cover the palm of my hand which is a big hand LOL

Local Friar bird

So lovely to see them fly in each evening just before the sun sets.

I stumbled across these little treasures last weekend, l must finish them, I want these for a little wall art, I love looking at these wee houses. I need to sew on the top and right side pieces, add a border,  then sandwich it ready for quilting. It’s been left out on my cutting table where I cut those last 8 pieces yesterday hopefully I will get them sewn to day?

I hadn’t noticed till I went to pin on this strip I made up this morning that this corner is out by an 1/8th so need to unpick top corner seam cut of a smidge and resew then it should fit perfectly.

First corner of Hope all most completely appliqued down.

All my pieces cut ready to be appliquéd down.  Now for a few weeks of machine applique.

I love this Red and Green quilt to be. After completing the last block I will have just as many leaves and grapes in the border!

On my cutting board  this morning, not sure how they are getting in?

On the veranda catching mosquitoes for us LOL.

New foliage covered with drops of rain look so fragile.

Last week these were in there full glory but the rain has thrashed them to a pulpy mess!!!!

A touch of gold hidden under other plants.

This young staghorn plant I tided to the palm is now secure and I can remove the shoe string now!

SO lovely to see her hugging the palm so tightly.

A huge flower head, such beautiful flowers.

when I thought there was nothing to photograph I turned around and there she was so open and so happy she just made me happy.

How beautiful nature is?

This is a palm flower and is often called the coral flower you can see why.  One on the left is a young flower and covered in seed still but will grow bigger and drop its seeds too.

A beautiful fragile fern Ive been trying to grow for several years, its grows freely but a tthe base of the pool side Not a good place so we ahve to keep pulling them out, but this year my effort at transplanting one has succeed.

Each week the stigma on this Lilly gets darker and darker.  SO beauitful.

In a few weeks we will see these pink parts of the flower shot out bright purple tiny flowers????

Then theres a lovely splash of yellow?

Love the this yellow!!!!

My centre Diamond fabrics

Diamonds made

Such a beautiful centre forming

Love these big blooms making with irononfussing

Stunning centre, not happy with my pale aqua leaves

I started with my circle that holds the centre together, made with irononfussing

Made up my big blooms, I was able to do this as I have the pattern been a moderator we get the pattern early so we can make it up if we wish and this helps with any questions asked by members on the BOM group.

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Made my little rose circles over washaway paper

Diamonds complete made up like English paper but used freezer paper for my foundation

My circles is appliqued down with a pale apricot thread on the otter ring and a deep purple on the inside of the circle,   Did this to give the inner circle a sharper edge and the outer soft apricot blends into the outer part of the centre.

Start of my first corner on part 2

Diamonds hand appliqued down and tiny fussy rose circles next

Rose circles hand appliqued on.

Start of machine appliqueing yellow leaves

Finally found the aqua colour I wanted for those 4 outer leaves?   Appliqued them down with a Sulky aqua thread.

My first corner ready for machine appliqueing down.  Will start with the green leaves as they sit behind the blue stem.

Wee child’s  quilt completed except for a final border and on Friday it is off to be quilted then delivered  to the new owner who is a fire victim.   I hope it makes them feel special and keeps them warm this winter.

A nasty one on my cutting table this morning, glad I did not tangle with him, that’s a nasty barb at the back of him, he was about 2 inch’s long.

Flower from the giant Brom

My RD is still at this stage as I’ve been trying to finish the child’s quilt.

Where I was up to last week on making this wee quilt, it was only going to be a  wall hanging or a cot quilt but it keeps growing!!!!!

Where it started

curt the bottom left hand block with the butterfly in it and turned the block so the butterfly is up the right way now!!!!

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There were a couple of nasty wee brown stain just behind the lambs tail so I’ve added a the fish and the fish’s tail covers those stains.   Need to sew on the blue border  first then iron him in place.

Starting by making my fish with irononfussing ironed on to a Teflon sheet.  Find this an easy way to make these added applqiue pieces.

Ironed down waiting to be machine appliquéd on.

Looks like its working.

Lots and lots of threads to pull through !!!!

Have added  deep pink applqiue to a few tail pieces and the strips of the body.

Used a black thread to do it’s eye, gill, and mouth. Now just need to do the top fin????  But first need to pull those threads and tie them off????  I’m all ways amazed how long the machine applqiue takes, I sit down for an hour and two hrs disappears?????

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Have been working on my Red Delicious this week plus several other designs?

Endless threads to thread and pull to the back and tie off!

Close up of those stems and carnation flowers

Some little wool punched blocks came in to the shop and there was very little back ground fabric on some of them,  they need a lot of help in way or the other, I’m turning them in to a child’s cuddly or comfort quilt

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Back of fabric!

I think it is the best way to do those beautiful Japanese symbols that are so intricate?

Punch worked blocks on beige calico. Will frame them in a deep red or blue child’s print then join them all together.  Top left hand corner has two sides done in the red so far.  

Close up 

This is the wee dragon fly that came to visit covered in spider web!!!  I managed to cup him in one hand and slowly remove the web and then let him fly away to live another couple of months hopefully????

It’s hard to believe they can make this much thread  then recoil it all !!!!!

Look at his legs pulling those threads tight?????

My first 3 blocks of Red Delicious.

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The white satin stitch was using white sulky thread and stitiching so so slowly and changing the width of the stitch constantly?

That satin stitch took me 10 mins LOL after nearly 2 hrs of trying all sorts of width’s and lengths samples LOL

But now I’m happy with the look?  Used a colonial knot for the centre of the pupil!!!

Procrastinating over which colours to use for the wee caps over the Nightshade berries?

DO I put the darkest fabric in the front petal or the back petal!!! ended up in the front !!!

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Love these berry caps they remind me of flower fairy hats

Love making these leaves mad with two pieces of fabric they are so much fun putting two contrasting colours together.

Some how my 2 toned leaves became green toned ones????

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Loved how it just kept growing!!!!

Now to find time to machine applqiue it down???

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This was my first choice but those seeds are two big!!!!

Liked these seeds but really not dark enough, you will see how I coped with this???

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Those pomegranate seeds are not showing up enough so going to twink them

Using a fine black marking pen I just went randomly and twinked those seeds????

You can see the difference here where I’ve twinked those seeds.

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Fabric I want to use for the vase is not long enough so Ive had to work out a way to still use the fabric !!!!   I’ve cut two pieces to make the vase but I want that join to be invisbale???

Thi sis some ribbon given to me when I was in France.   Its perfect for here.

I fused some ononfusing to the back of the wide ribbon

To get a perfect fit I placed the pice of vase I cut out then pressed it all together on my Teflon sheet.

Cut to the true shape, I’m happy with it?  it looks like it was meant to be like this now???

Flew in while I was working during the night, I gently caught him or her and released her out under the house as it was pouring with rain.

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A very usual dawn!!!

We have had so much rain he would have had to find a new home that drain would of been full of water for the last two days???? He’s a lizard.

Machine appliqueing down one of the big border perse flowers

Did this one a year ago almost!!!!

Making my flower fishes eye????

Threads so many threads to pull through and weave in to the back!!!!

Highlighting the centre of the flower with blue thread doing double back stitch, on a very low stitch length.

Those fish and I still have 3 more borders to do yet!!!!!

They are lovely but oh me oh my!!!!!

SO close now to appliqueing down that big flower It was left to last to save touching it all the time when appliqueing every thing else down?  When machine appliqueing I find the block get pushed and shoved so much through the machine throat????   SO leaving the main applqiue till last.

Using white on white fabrics, not all the same fabric but all white on white. Remember to cut slightly bigger than measurements to allow for shrinkage when doing appliqué, then cut to size when you have finished the block?

Base for the Cherry thieves, yes it’s not red, I will be adding a little colour other than Red here and there?

Start of the pieces for irononfussing machine applique, these little legs are so cute?  Making them up as one piece rather than seperate legs.

Have ironed the legs to the body so I won’t lose them and they are ironed to the base.  Main part of bird is not ironed down as I have the beaks, and cherry stalk to thread through his beak first .

Made up his wing separately and will iron it on to the body as a whole wing .

He has his cherries on the stalk threaded through his beak, again I made up the stalk and cherries then added them .

Slowly it takes shape, it’s taking me much longer than I thought it would.

He looks happier with his eye, that wee eye is made up of  4 pieces all so tiny!

This was as far as I got this afternoon and tonight so my little female bird has no eye or wing, may be tomorrow morning which will be Wednesday?

Friar birds nest in the dried flower of a palm tree

Palm flower that the Friar bird has made it’s nest in but in a dried one this ones just opened .

Koru.  A tree ferns young palm just unfolding?

Most of my mornings around 5.45am start like this, so beautiful to open my eyes and see such a beautiful sight! But this morning the horizon and valley were covered in dark clouds and mist was covering the river.

Now 15 mins later I can not see any blue sky so looks like a wet day coming up. If only we could send our rain down to Victoria and NSW where the fires are burning?  I was at the beach last week and was watching the swimmers wash them selves down on the edge of the beach under a public showers and though how sad here we can run a tap for hrs and down South they have NO water??????

One of my challengers this year is to start a centre in Baltimore, my first one so it will be a interesting challenge. Here you can see part of it over a light box, I drawing the design on to my back ground fabric.  .

Leaves for my BA centre

For my leaves in my BA centre

For my BA centre

BA centre fabrics

I came across a box that has things in it from 20 years ago and plus. Only need to complete one more wee block and join them to make a wee Christmas wall hanging? Great to have my hanging hoist Rod that hubby made me, this large piece of black felt works perfectly as a wall board. .

Was a wee sample centre I made when learning applique in Papua New Guinea around 1993?

Then I wanted to add a boarder, so started to make Dresden plates big medium and small ?

I just kept on making Dresden plates!  using cardboard templates and all hand stitched?

More Dresden plates and started to applique them on to strips of Beautiful navy kimono fabric

I was living in Papua New Guinea behind barb-wire with a lot of time on my hands after work 3 jobs and then not able to do any work or even do  volunteering work?  So I joined a sewing quilting group!  This turned my life around for the next 25 years till now LOL.  I’d been doing candle-wicking for several years and so started to teach others in PNG.  Above is some of my sample pieces I used?

These 4 blocks were how I taught but gave them a pre pack to start with using silks for the back ground!

Teaching them to free hand draw a simple design from the centre flower and learn to make new shapes!

These were tiny broaches I taught back then  25 years ago using brass rings and a 1/2 circle of felt .

Working an O in colonial knots and French knots!

You could keep on adding knots to make the O wider but for me this is enough?

Close up of those knots?  It’s not difficult i5 just takes lots of time?

Then one meeting I asked if some one would show me how they made those lovely wee fabric flowers???  Some were made of fabric hearts some with something like petals to me back then LOL.

My petal flowers from 25 years ago!!!  I still like making them but use washaway freezer paper now not cardboard as you see here, but still small flowers?

Then some one showed me how to make easy Drunkards path blocks with a circle and a square background?! and I had fun with those?  But my love kept going back to applqiue work? How to make a perfect heart for appliquéing on to a top or a dress?

Cut out your hearts in a perfect shape of your liking.  After cutting out your heart shape stitch around the edge leaving only around a little more than 1/8th

Backside of the hearts.  Slit a hole in the back area of the heart and turn the heart inside out, work the edges in a rolling fashion to get the seam to lye flat and press. Add some wadding through the back slit if you want a puffy look to your heart .

Then I decided to teach my self to make clam shells!!! Yes they were only 2inchs across and down?

Yes I made these tiny tiny double sided shells and even added padding to them till some one one showed me a very simple and fast way to make clam shells LLLOL.

Start with making a mini patchwork in 3/4inch squares

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My first HH from Inez who was going on holiday the next day but took the time to make and post me this lovely HH.

My first house from HOTYH.

It takes time changing the top threads but worth it for that look I want. flower from WIL

A shoulder bag I like to make every now and then, its practical, holds a lot when shopping  and fun to make?

Large buttons added to help the wear on the bottom of the bag plus keeps it clean when put down?

This block ended up been the first one to get its stemwaves and fish !!! WIL!!!

Finally have my machine again after 6 weeks of no sewing machine, working on appliqueing down my pansy blocks HOTYH

Sadly it falling apart just due to constant use. Some thing any quilter loves to see as it tells you it has been loved and used. I stitched down some applique that was falling off and patched a nasty piece of fabric that had parted just so worn. This is the first quilt I ever made all done by hand.

Border of Love Allways.

a couple of Mums memory blocks I was working on.

Each block was made from some special handkerchiefs given to my mum in the 1950’s!!!!

Enjoyed working on this quilt, silks and cottons.

All made from beginners and enders except the top and bottom borders!!!!

I finished!!!   I did not realise I’m made so many things ???

Have been machine appliqueing leaves down to day so
I can start adding hand applique grapes, Ive also been sitting watching  a TV series while hand turning those grapes. I love sitting doing hand applique in the evenings

Finally finished and on its way!!!

Made with French knots and Colonial knots!

I find this kind of work relaxing?

Silk Fabric I dyed for the pineapple topknot and big green leaves,  the light beige fabric is what I used to dye the dark green fabric,  it has a lovely silver thread woven through it.

Using seal and press to cut out my pieces from ironfussing for the pineapple topknot and base leaves  these will be rawedge not turned. all tiny pieces are numbered or mark some way?

First I place a small teflon sheet down and I start working left to right this works for me

Slowly working across, pinning each piece as I go in place.

One completed top knot ready for the iron to seal all together.

All ironed together ready to be stored till I applique it down on to my background fabric

Just playing now to see how it will look and how I will build it on my background fabric. I made 28 of those tiny shapes that I built my pineapple from.

Add a few leaves

A few more slowly.

Pomegranate will be fun to make using irononfussing and the outer parts turned applqiue?

Bottom leaves of pineapple added, seeds of the pomegranate,  and it needed a splash of yellow, so we have a sunflower LOL .

Finally the berries!  Now to find the time to make the other 1/2  of this blocks LOL.

Close up of those pineapple shapes ?

Nov or Christmas lilly it is commonly known as here

One of my favorite treasures in the garden it surprises me each year.

He landed on our front terrace and when I was trying to photograph him he got quiet angry, so threw a towel over him and threw him back in to the trees.

One side of the two leaves that they have stitched together to form there nest.  Start of a tree ants nest which I nearly touch, I  was pruning the tree and this was on one of the ones I cut down. They are very vestie and you do not want to get to close to them.

Its a bit like a football shape leaves are around 8inchs long and 5 across. When they  want another room they pull another leave across and attach that one and they can have up to 12 or more leaves all pulled in to make there nests .

Came to visit last night

Up close and personal, one of our local wee frogs which the garden is full of after the rain last night?

Last nights sunset from the front veranda was very beautiful.

Such a beautiful centre loved working on this centre. Every thing just went together so beautifully.

Was a huge learning curve making this mini wall quilt those wee houses are 3inchsquare?

Such a beautiful centre designed by Esther, of course as usual I changed some of it? Used fussy cutting flowers instead of her blooms.  Great use of  some beautiful Japanese blooms .

Loved making this centre. These silks just glow.

Diamond Hill, I did not use this vase in the end.

Diamond Hill

Diamond Hill, I did keep this vase ?

Diamond Hill waiting for me to work on it again, a stunning design and wonderful to make. Oh to be able to use my sewing machine again.

Bleaching the paves in the swimming pool area of mould. Left hand top 4 done?

Bleaching pool decking after bleaching

Pool Decking before bleaching covered in mould from the last wet it was a very long wet! .?

Start of second flowering.

Tree  fern.

A touch of scarlet and yellow to brighten up the garden.

Love these splashes of colour in a garden of mostly greens!

Front entrance.

Road frontage.

Entrance from road.

Garden  is full of these butterflies right now,

Thankgoodness for the pool right now, yesterday and the day before were 33C and 34.5 C!!!  Forecasted for hotter days to come this week!

What’s right in front of me as I write my blog!

I think every morning how lucky I am to live in such a spot? Looking down to the river and across to the Kuranda Ranges.

Glorious Yellows  I dyed during the week. Its so much fun seeing the fabric change?

Spent a couple of days dying greens till I got the colour shades I liked

Glorious colours of soft silk all over dyed silk from the one  kimono.

A great mottled green for the light 1/2 of the big leave may be?

Greens and more greens in the foreground is the silk I used for all the colours I made, it’s a very pale pink mushroom colour, it’s from a silk kimono about 1930’s  it has a lovely weave pattern so gives lots of texture to the new dyed fabrics.

Made up 3 leaves first to see if they were going to look like what my mind was seeing LOL.

Going to be a perfect foil for this tiny wee flowers!

First I traced all the leaf shapes on to the washaway freezer paper, numbered them , T for top of the leaf B for bottom, then added letters telling which one went where on the bouquet on both 1/2s. Last was a mark of 3 dots on each 1/2 where I was going to cut the leaf in 1/2 so I knew at a glance they were the middle join, when you have lots of 1/2 leaves it saves a lot of time?

Starting to iron on those 1/2 leaves I use small pieces of polystyrene to pin my pieces to as I go.

Making up my leaf shapes bit by bit so I can show you how I make them.

Starting bottom right hand side  First step is drawing my leaf shape by placing my washaway freezer paper over the leaf shapes, it is clear enough to see the pattern under it.  Then cut the leaf shape out and add all the reminder points on the two sides .  Step 2 iron all the shapes to the fabric cut out shapes this is where I use those 3 dots along the seam to remind me to leave a good 1/4 inch seam allowance?      Step 3 roll back centre line of one side of the leaf where you added the reminder dots. You can use glue I needle baste.   Look closely at photo and you will see that the right 1/2 is rolled back.    Step 4 place rolled back 1/2 on top of the other seam, it will sit snug make sure you even these parts up perfectly, glue into place or like I do baste it!  Top row  from right to left first two have been basted together.  3rd one I have stitched the two halve together and removed all basting threads it is now ready to applqiue to my block.    Happy sewing!!!!

Leaves slowly been added, I was hoping to have all the leaves finished for my first bouquet but they take longer to make than I thoughtLOL.

On the right are the start of flowers for bouquet 2!