Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday.
Well, I missed doing the April Stitch Along but it was just crazy here at Quilts by Jen and I wouldn’t have been able to keep up. May is going to be a bit slower so I can participate in Stitch Along Sundays again.
Notice though I am almost a week late with this post but I will be all caught up my tomorrow and back on track.
This week’s rules can be found on Ruth’s blog – May Week 1 Rules. And don’t forget to check out the May Gallery to see what everyone else is up to this month.
The rules said to create a background from scraps using either light coloured fabrics or bright coloured fabrics. I guess that means I need to go and dig in my scrap bins – oh this is going to be hard since I don’t really do scrappy very well – controlled scrappy yes but not true scrappy.
Let’s see what I come up with.
I still had the scraps that I used for one of my mug rugs, Rainbow Steps sitting on the table so decided to make the background for this piece as a bright background. The fabric scraps are definitely bright.
Some bright scraps
First I cut a piece of fusible non woven stabilizer the size needed. Well, I made it a tad bit larger so I had room to square off at the end. It is 9″ x 12 ½″. This is a stabilizer that I bought when I was living in Australia – slowly but surely I will get it used up.
Fusible non-woven stabilizer
I just used the bright pieces of fabric as they were since they were already cut into squares and rectangles – keep it simple I said to myself.
Fabric pieces on ironing board
Placement of the pieces was rather random on the stabilizer and once the stabilizer was covered I fused the fabric in place.
Placing the pieces
Since I didn’t overlap the fabric pieces I had to use a close zigzag stitch to cover up the white showing through from the back. I used a variegated thread with a stitch width of 4.0 and length of 0.4 to cover all the raw edges.
Stitching done horizontally.
Vertical stitching added.
Stitching completed
Now to pick a dark fabric – that’s going to be a challenge with this bright background to have something that shows up and stands out.
I’ll do some auditioning and reveal my pick tomorrow.
Happy Quilting!
