A New Project

    

Oh, the people you meet!

Sometimes, you meet people you form

an instant friendships with.

Lately this has been the case.

I have new found friends that I crazy quilt with,

Mary Ann, Connie, Pam and Kim.

I also have a group of friends that I

wool stitch with,

Elaine, Fiona and Kim.

Kim is a "birds of a feather" friend,

we seem to like a lot of the same things.

My latest project is wool stitching,

Elaine  has a blog that features quilting and

stitching among other things.

Occasionally, you may even see a

 chicken, on her blog.

Elaine decided to do a tutorial on a

"Penny Rug Sew Along".

I have seen these penny rugs and I love the

primitive look of them.

The best part is they are made of wool and

wool is a pure pleasure to stitch through.

When you are starting a new project

 the first step is,

visualizing it in your mind.

If  you can see it,

 you can create it.

I looked around for a nice shape for

my background.  I found this silver tray

and decided to make a mat for it.

I then planned my design.  I did not want anything

strictly for Halloween, but fall related.

Leaves seemed to be a good choice.

I cut my patterns from freezer paper and ironed them

to the felt. ( This is an easy way to accurately cut a

pattern.)  The freezer paper adheres well and can easily

be pulled off once the pattern has been cut.

The leaves are cut out and I am playing around with

the placement in this photo.  I did not like how

I had the red between the 2 orange pieces.

I swapped the red and olive green pieces.

 I stitched them down using 6 strands of

DMC  embroidery floss and a buttonhole stitch.

Pretty cute and I can switch out the mat for all 4 seasons!

Please visit all my friends blogs, I have included the

link to each one.

Love to all,

Debbie