WOW or WIP’s. 6th Nov 2019

My bias that I will use for my stems,  was gifted  to me by a lovely lady in France who once had a haberdashery shop and these were still in boxes in one of her rooms, I have been using them for the last 10 years and these are the last of them.

My dark purple I will use for my thick stems, pinky purple for the thinner and the brown for the thin stems. When ever I use Laure’s (DDIL) Aunty’s gift of these ribbons and bias rolls I just wish she could see the quilts they have gone in to making.

First I made my leaves All of them over 300 if I remember right?  I wanted lots of colour in my leaves so used all two toned leaves and all scrappy.

Then it was the fun of making my rosehip heads. I showed how I made these in a earlier blog.

Then the excitement of making my blooms thank goodness there were 40 of them as I loved making them, have another 9 to go I think I just love making them.  Hope I enjoy machine appliqueing them down!!!!!.

last night I made my first 3 rose buds I needed 4 but its only 3 for to day to show you.   Adding the yellow inside the middle of the full blooms just makes these blooms POP !!!!

Now I need to added these to my background border fabric.

Same area different full rose blooms, most of them are different, Ive made extra pinks for my basket arrangements.

On my verranda this morning to show you how I will build my HOTYH corners of the final border.  thank goodness it was not windy LOL

Leaf is made up of two halves. I cut my template  shapes out off 4 layers of freezer paper for my templates normally  but one of my DS has a 3D printer and made me two templates on his computer and that made life so much easier to make 350 of each of these shapes!!!!!  One 1/2 I add a good 1/4inch on to the middle of  it, so one 1/2 is the same size as the pattern the other 1/2 is quiet fat,  this extra 1/4 of an inch slide under the normal piece.

For you Dianna You can see a mixture of finished leaves. At the top left and right are cut out leaves from scraps of irononfussing fabrics,  ones on the right are the same shape as the leaf pattern, left all have that added 1/4 inch to the middle of the leaf.  middle of the top row right hand side,  two 1/2s facing each other, left side, right  1/2 is lying on top of the fat leaf this is how it stays till I press it, my leaf is made!!!!!    I did discover that good quality hairstraighen irons  make great irons for ironing these leaves??????