Sunday, November 13, 2016

Slow Sunday Applique

One evening this past week, I spent a couple of hours tracing and cutting out the pieces for a wool Applique project which will be a Christmas gift for a family member.


There are a lot of little pieces in this project!



I am keeping all of them in a ziplock bag for safe keeping! 

Today, I am staring to sew the sheep bodies in place. 




I don't like having the pins in place while I am doing blanket stitch Applique, so I hand baste each piece down first using matching thread.  



I have vast quantities of embroidery thread in many colours and found a gray to match the large sheep.



I had to watch a YouTube video about how to start my first stitch...I have not done this for a while! 



I am off to the races now... We will be doing some garden clean-up today and I hope to do some sewing later today.  I will be linking up with Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching. 






9 comments:

  1. how many strands of your thread do you use? I have been using 2 and sometimes 3 I wondered as I know many use the little balls now where you do not do it by strands

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    1. I am using two strands of thread. I have some of the little balls of cotton thread too but no gray so I decided to use embroidery floss instead.

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  2. I can't wait to see what this will be. I love the background fabric.

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  3. Beautiful Gail! Loved seeing your embroidery threads!

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  4. That is a lot of little pieces indeed. It will be fun to watch this grow :)

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  5. I have 2 large boxes of floss...I love color! Your project looks like it is off to a great start.

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  6. There are a lot of pieces! I'd still be stitching at Christmas time. It's been so long since I've done any embroidery or the blanket stitch, it is always stitched left to right?

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  7. Someone will be a lucky recipent of your handstitched gift. You are inspiring me to start a small Christmas wool applique project that I have been pondering.

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  8. This is going to be a really neat project. YouTube can certainly be helpful at times.

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