These Little Gems are very simply made - strips of solid fabric, as you can see, heavily machine quilted in close rows - and the centre left unquilted to show off the beaded chain - a Christmas tree decoration, I think, found lying around the house -
This one is also on the Little Gems
website (somewhere) - it's called Pond Life and is pieced "over papers" - that English method usually used for hexagons. I cut the whole thing out of freezer paper, marked what went where, and ironed it onto appropriate fabrics. Despite the marking, I nearly went wrong quite a few times. But eventually it all fit, sewn with those tiny stitches that sometimes are a pleasure to make. But it looked rather bare, so the pondweed embroidery appeared....
The green fabrics were screen printed in a class or on a play-day with a friend, I can't remember - it was a long time ago!
This one is also on the Little Gems website (somewhere) - it's called Pond Life and is pieced "over papers" - that English method usually used for hexagons. I cut the whole thing out of freezer paper, marked what went where, and ironed it onto appropriate fabrics. Despite the marking, I nearly went wrong quite a few times. But eventually it all fit, sewn with those tiny stitches that sometimes are a pleasure to make. But it looked rather bare, so the pondweed embroidery appeared....
The green fabrics were screen printed in a class or on a play-day with a friend, I can't remember - it was a long time ago!
That last one is a great one. Everything dancing!
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