I gave up fighting the crappy internet connection while I was away so a couple of days behind but anyway...the final two days of Summer School 2013, Saturday & Sunday, I spent in an appliqué workshop with Rhonda absorbing her tips and tricks. Rhonda is an amazing tutor and it was two days well spent (oh I just read that back, the first three days with Karen were definitely well spent too!). For the class Rhonda designed an urn of flowers that can be used as the basis for all sorts of projects such as the centre of a medallion quilt, a cushion cover or, as Rhonda had done, quilted and framed in a nice wooden frame. Being a stitcher of amazing slowness in class (I get distracted so easily by socialising, shopping, cuppas, any excuse really) so knowing from the get go that there was no way I'd achieve great and wonderous progress I asked Rhonda what to concentrate on...
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| Ironing the background for a photo would mess up the tracing... that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!... |
...the result being a slightly more than half appliqued urn and some petals...I stitched the petals on Sunday when I was using most of my energy resisting the urge to crawl under the table, curl up and go to sleep - relaxing had taken a turn for the ridiculous! - and they should have been in remedial class. Seriously hoping by the fifth incarnation of this flower in the design there has been improvement.
So that was Summer School 2013...wahhhhhh! sob sob it's over...reality is rushing back in but in the meantime...
Happy Stitching...
4 comments:
ooh - pretty.
sorry about the reality check!
Enjoy practising on your flowers.
welcome back from school.
lovely work on the urn.
Hope you keep up the momentum at home.
school sounded like hard work... but your learnt some great stuff...
Hugz
glad you enjoyed summerschool. Nice word done :-)
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