I decided that I would not spend any time of guild work this weekend but, of course, I did. Just a different type of guild work. We have three challenges right now and I decided to create one of them...this one...
The challenge is a play on words. I am sure you can figure out what this one is...'A Bed of Roses'!
It's raw edge free cut applique plus some fussy cutting for the flowers. Once the design was what I wanted, I appliqued first the bed with pillows and dust ruffle using black three strand embroidery thread. here's a close-up...
I then appliqued the flowers on using a gold thread which wasn't very amenable to appliquing small pieces. Here's a close-up...
I was going to quilt it with a meandering stitch but decided instead to outline the bed first and then send stitched out from there resembling rays. It focused the attention on the bed. All I have left to do is the binding which I hope to get to this week.
So that was my non-guild, fun weekend. Oh, and I finally got the estimate to fix SnowWhite. A pretty penny but less than I had prepared myself for...$2300!!! Ah the joys of owning a truck!!!
That's all today, folks...
Talk with you tomorrow...