TWO MORE BLOCKS B1 and C9 BATCHELORS BUTTONS AND JANES TEARS

Applique

We were going away for the Easter weekend and as we were staying with my Dad and Sister in Law and Partner I decided it would be inappropriate to take my sewing machine on holidays! (If they hadn't been joinging us I would have :-))

So with this in mind I decided to have a go at some needle turn applique.  I have recently looked through  my daughter's completed DJ blocks and thought if she can do it I can do it.  I spent the week prior watching as many video's as I could on Needle turn applique to learn how it was done.  Off to spotlight the day before we left for some silk thread and some applique needles.  Then I printed off the template patterns for four blocks that required applique and found some materials cut out some five and a half inch squares and packed it all in a nice ring binder with front cover and all ready to do.

The first one was Batchelors Buttons and I was very happy with the result.  I would say its definately not perfect but in pretty OK and seeing as its a small block in the whole quilt I think it will pass.

This one I used freezer paper to cut out circles with a 1/4" seam ran a row of stitching around the edge the pulled the circle in around the paper pressed them and then pulled out the paper.  This gave me a good solid circle shape to applique on.

 

 

B1 Bachelors Buttons

 

The second block was Jane's tears which was a little harder as I used needle turn applique method on this one.  I have never done this before so it took a while to get the hang of it but I am happy with the finished product.  As I said before in the overall big project it will look OK.



C9 Janes Tears