A Hand Work Project

a fall handwork project

 

Last month I started embroidering leaves on this quilt top.  I am stitching free style leaves with perle cotton.  This is not quilting as I am only stitching through 2/3rds of the quilt sandwich, the top and the batting.  The batting will hide my knots and such from the surface of the quilt. I will be adding a cotton backing fabric and machine quilting in the sashing and borders and maybe around the leaves.

 

 

This is top was my August Schnibble last year. 

I blogged about it here

 

 

... and about the method I used for adding the sashing to the blocks
as I went along here.

 

At that time I had a specific idea for a pieced backing that never got made.  For the backing now I will probably go for a one fabric in in a fall print.  At the time, my friend Delia suggested a leaf pattern for the quilting in the background squares.  The more I thought about it; the more I thought about it.  It was a very good suggestion! At some point the idea of machine quilted leaves blew away and the hand embroidered leaf idea took root. 

 

I find simple hand stitching very restful.

I need an easy project that I can pick up and put down.

As I count down the days to my eye surgery next week, I am just puttering around in my sewing room and this project is keeping my hands busy and I am enjoying the pretty fall colors.  This project will take me quite some time as I am a slow hand stitcher. 

More pictures much later.

 

Have a happy quilty day!

 

~ <3 ~