Month 8 – Almost There

Cut your fabrics according to directions

Pick the colour combinations of your pinwheels, make sure the colours that are going beside your rail fence sections, so you don’t have two colours touching.

Cut your pinwheels on the diagonal

I’m going to miss these cute pinwheels. Did you notice the direction of the dupioni silk grains? Isn’t that neat how it turned out?

I figured out it’s easier to trace the markings onto the applique before we attach it to the background but after we remove the backing of the fuse. Some of you will have the charcoal silk here for the kitten patch

Isn’t this little dog cute? Same thing do his markings before you fuse to the background. Some will have charcoal for the dog.

applique your heart in place

Stitch around your Kitten sign, I picked a decorative stitch

same with the little pup – stitch around 

 Now for the finishing kits: