I spent the morning marking a big chunk of material for the placement of embroidery inside of 12 separate blocks. When that "math" part was all done ( whew...I despise math) I was anxious to start on the fun stuff. Oh how I just LOVE the embroidery feature on my Ellie!!! I managed to complete only one shoe before I had to stop (danged body!)...but it is just so adorable! Eleven more shoes to do and then I can cut the blocks apart and begin the applique. I am SO PSYCHED, although (admittedly) a bit scared of my first applique attempt! If I just remember to go slow and steady I should be fine (fingers and toes crossed, lol).
I think I will go sit in my rocker for a while and relax. The hyacinths that my Dear Aunt gave me the other day smell wonderful...so calming and yet "refreshing" at the same time. Spring is truly "in the air" here and I'm loving every minute of it.
Toodles...
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I will look forward to seeing this quilt. I use machine embroidery in most all of my quilts but have never appliqued it...
ReplyDeleteActually the appliqué is in addition to the embroidery. Thanks so much for reading along!
DeleteSo cute! Cannot wait to see where this goes :o) Thank you for linking up to SEWjo Saturday!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, and thanks for reading along!
DeleteLove the shoe motif and I can't wait to see the applique portion. You do lovely work Lin.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Thank you, Jackie! I had laid out all of the "math" stuff on the fabric, but I used a disappearing pen to draw all of the lines. I knew it would "disappear" before I got back to it so I stuck pins with the heads of the pins exactly on the corners of all of the markings. Hopefully tomorrow I will be up to working on it and can redraw the lines I need just prior to each embroidery. Hopefully, lol. If not, there is always next week, lol.
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