Wordless Wednesday......

mary

Vision of Sugar Plums....

Another Tree Skirt in the works....this one with mittens, hearts, birds, etc.  

Even though many of the designs are not typical Christmas....I think they work...

....more sketching or painting with thread...

Need to add much more kitsch...heehee.....

AND.....I finished one more Grandmother's Flower Garden block.....yippee!!!

mary

Painting With Thread....

I did a little painting today....with thread...giving my Christmas scene a little detail...

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My stitching is intentionally sloppy organic to give this a child like appearance.

I used my free-motion foot, dropped the feed dogs and, in most cases, used Sew-All thread {Gutermann}

I would usually choose the lovely YLI 100% cotton thread for a project like this, but I have found with the layering of fusible adhesive.... the Sew-All holds up a little better.  It is not so bad on small pieces, but on the longer stretches of stitching the YLI is just shredding....

Also....a little tissue paper under the areas where I am stitching directly on the background fabric...helps eliminate some of the puckering...the tissue paper acts as a stabilizer {you could also use a light stabilizer}

Hope all is well with all of you.  We have had some fierce storms the past couple of days...nothing compared to poor Joplin though.  It breaks my heart to hear the stories. 

Take care...

mary

***my blogger is still not letting me leave comments on blog where I must choose a profile.  It works fine on the pop up window for comments....I have changed my comment section to the pop up type...I have my fingers crossed that all will be resolved soon :)