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Tuesday 17 February 2015

Patchwork

This is my 1st attempt at patchwork
Pam does inspiring work, so I here's my design
 I made 4 strips of fabric, each piece an inch wide, total 4 inch wide panels, I am a control freak, so I found it very hard to put the colours together, 
these were changed around loads of times, 
I checked your blog Pam to see how you do it. 
I then cut them in half so I have two of each.
This is going to be a cushion cover, I will make the back the same, I have stitched the outer two panels together. I am thinking I will put a stone plain piece of fabric in the center where I have placed the pink card, this I would stitch a design on. But I also have a nice piece of Embroidery Anglaise, in a stone shade, which would fit.
 I am going to sleep on it and finish this tomorrow.
I have just the center panel to stitch together, then I will stitch the outer panels to it. Each square is a four inch square, so they balance the panels. It is precision stitching,  but I do want the corners to match up, so I am using my measure at every stage.  I intend to put a boarder around the whole piece. The design is one I sketched, not to hard for me, but enough to stretch my creativity. I will have to get same wadding, which I can get when I am in Somerset later this week.
How was your afternoon..........

9 comments:

  1. well done very adventurous for your first attempt :-)

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  2. I like the way you layered your strips in the first picture. It could be a design for another cushion cover.
    xx

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  3. It's good to try new things. It's looking good so far.

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  4. It is looking good Marlene, no one would guess that it is your first. I have been cutting strip sets up today, tedious but it will be worth it tomorrow.

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  5. love what you are doing so far, very pretty.

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  6. The fabrics work well together in the configurations you chose. I find it hard to group differing patterns together, I guess it gets easier with practice.

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  7. It's looking great, far neater than my first attempt x

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