Thanks to all who left comments last week, l enjoy hearing from you.
My Hearts Desire continues to grow with my third block coming to life. This particular block is called Sing A Song For Me..cute! Not so manyflowers in it and instead of the original bird, l decided to put 2 small Broderie Perse birds in its place.
Broderie Perse is a very old tecnique, the words are French and translate to Persian Embroidery and was very popular in the 17th century. Indian examples have been found using this type of work. I love using it, its so quick and just adds a little something special to your piece.
Basically it consists of elements cut from fabric and resewn on to another simply cut your flower, bird, piece of fruit vrom the fabric and leave enough to turn under.
Here is what l am trying to achieve.
I have made some progress and it is now sewn and leaves are in place
So now this is how it looks leaves bar 2 sewn, birds ready to be sewn
We continued to find mangoes on the trees after we had taken the last load in, they hide in the trees, so we had quite a pile. Some were ripe so we have made yet more wine and its looking good should be 13% strength, so good falling down fluid lol.
The rest were too green to make wine so l shall make some Green Spicey Chutney.
We found more after l took athis photo, so the wine has been given its first rack as its now 1 month old and it will be given 2 more at one month intervals.
This was our first 8 ltrs of wine, note the colour, its now cleared nicely and will continue to do so.
Have to admit we could not resist sampling it, very nice but a bit to go. It will be drinkable in 6 months, but will mature at 1 year.
What are we going to do with 43 gallons of the stuff...why have a party, l have some friends coming from America and Ireland so it will probably be sampled then. We have to decide on a name yet for this heady little brew, so any ideas will be appreciated. So lucky us.
See you next week, until then enjoy life and your sewing.
I will leave you with this thought lol
Now connecting with Esther's WOW
See you next week, until then enjoy life and your sewing.
I will leave you with this thought lol
Now connecting with Esther's WOW
Hi Ellie, Interesting to see you adding broderie perse to your work. I never think about using other techniques like this, it's very effective. I really can't wait to get started on my applique once Esther releases her next years BOMs. My roll of Floriana stabilizer is on it's way. I could only find one supplier of this in the UK, and they would not ship here so I'm having it forwarded from Mum in. I am so tempted to try one of Esther's free blocks, but I'm sitting on my hands, determined to finish my La Passacaglia by the end of the year, then I can begin seriously applique-ing. You sound so busy, using your mangoes up, where do you find time to stitch?? Have a great week, are you joining in any local festivities tomorrow. xx
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel, l hope you can stop yourself from starting something, l always find that so hard. Don't usually join in the fiestas, don't have time lol. Glad you found Floriana, hope you get on ok with it. Are you using it for machine stitching or will you turn under using the washable glue method
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