Weather update: It didn't snow today - no surprises there. But it wasn't hot, either. Cold and wet, not summer weather at all. Although it made a pleasant change to yesterday. And the plants are no longer drooping.
Round robin update: I feel I've done quite a bit today, with crazy-patching.
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| Yesterday's progress pic: two untrimmed blocks, another trimmed to 6.5", and showing the reverse side of another. |
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| Back and front views: all that paper must come off, and it's so fiddly to get the little pieces out from under the stitching lines! These two blocks are for the butterfly wings, so I used my very small scraps in order for them to be wildly colourful. |
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| Butterfly bodies, waiting to be stuck down and winged. |
What I've learned today: Don't use very small scraps for crazy-patching, especially if you're stitching to a paper foundation. Smaller pieces to sew means two no-so-good things:
1. The paper must come off, eventually, and all that stitching is going to impede progress.
2. All that stitching, close together, creates bulk. Which will be hard to sew through. And I'm planning on doing (yet more) raw-edge hand applique. Yes, by hand. How crazy am I.
Which means I'd better find my thimble. That nice thick metal one.
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