I seem to have ended up with four different hand embroidery projects on the go at once, all actually destined for different fabric books so I’m afraid I haven’t done much from my postcards project, it is less easily portable, so it didn’t get taken on holiday. It’s only small but it takes some planning. I have however managed to start another one this week.

I decided to do one of a foxglove, they’re a lovely flower, I love seeing them both in the garden where they happily self seed, or in the wild. Rebecca from Featherstitch House has done a gorgeous design using raw edge applique and bondaweb.

I chose a mottled green cotton as my background, the grid marks on it are guidance for some background stitching. I drew them before I remembered I needed to iron on fleece on the back and as it’s done with a Frixion pen, all my marks disappeared! Rather than draw them all again I popped it in the freezer overnight so they all returned.

The foxglove parts are stuck on with bondaweb, though Rebecca uses Fuseaweb which apparently doesn’t separate from the paper like bondaweb tends to do, I’m going to keep an eye out for it at the Knit and Stitch show next weekend.

The instructions call for four different pink fabrics for the flowers, I haven’t got that much pink, but in my scrap box I found some watercolour print cotton I made a dress with years ago with pink roses. I fussycut the different shades from different parts of the roses. I’m pretty pleased with how they’ve worked out.

All I’ve got to do now is the embroidery!

Please visit the other blogs that are also taking part in this SAL. There are so many different projects to enjoy. The participants live all over the world so you may need to allow for time differences. We’re posting today at local time. Click the links to their blogs below and see what they’re up to.

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen