| Links to Template
a
Links to Template b
Links to placement pattern
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
|
January BOM
|
|
| |
Grapepicker
|
|
| |
Circles and stems
|
|
| |
 |
|
| |
Supplies |
|
| |
Freezer Paper |
|
| |
Stabilizer |
|
| |
Glue stick |
|
| |
Batik scraps |
|
| |
One of your 14 inch or so background squares (this will be set on the
diagonal so requires a larger block for this setting) |
|
| |
Permanent and a water soluble pen |
|
| |
Washers (Metal or Teflon from the Hardware Store) |
|
| |
Lightweight tearaway stabilizer (if you discover that you are not
able to stitch pieces to background smoothly without it or if you use a
satin stitch) or Ricky Timm's Totally Stable |
|
| |
Prepare Your Pieces |
|
| |
Trace all the pattern shapes on your fabric choices (on the reverse
side) with 1/4 inch seam allowance.
On the leaves, clip the inside curves. Use a child's watercolor
paintbrush and paint the seam allowance of the pieces and then turn the
allowance to the back and press down with your fingers.Do the same
for the bird and stems.
Put a washer on the reverse side of the fabric circle for the grapes.
Hand sew a running stitch around the seam allowance of each grape. Pull
the thread so that the circle gathers and covers the washer. End the
stitching with 3 stitches in place, Iron these little circles flat, Clip
the gathering thread and slide the washer out. They should remain as
perfect flat circles. |
|
| |
Prepare Your Background |
|
| |
Tape the sections of the placement diagram together. Position your
background fabric on top of it and trace the diagram with a water
soluble marker. You do not have to mark all of every line, just enough
so you know how to place the pieces. |
|
|
|
Place the Pieces
|
|
| Place the pieces as indicated on the diagram, Use glue stick to keep
pieces in place and be sure to tuck the raw edges under another piece so
they do not show. |
|
| I stitched all these pieces down using a hem stitch in clear thread.
You can use any of the stitches mentioned in the former blocks. The
thread can be invisible, matching or decorative |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|