This shows the block before I totally finished the applique... The black basting line is basting the leaf shape to the freezer paper base. The white stitching stitches the shape to the background fabric.
Showing the stitching...the thread is more orange than it looks in the photo, but not as orange as I wish it were.
Here you see the stitches on the back of the block...
Above you see I have cut the background away from the behind the leaf and am removing the freezer paper. One thing about this freezer paper, I don't think it is as good as what I used to get. It does not feel as heavy and makes crinkling sounds.
And here is what it looks like after the basting is all removed and the freezer paper removed.
I have only finished the applique part of a few of them. All the others I have finished still has the freezer paper and basting in them. At the rate I am going, it is going to be a long time before I finish them all...have several things going and need to start another one...and yet I do so little.
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I raked a bunch of leaves yesterday...well, 8 big garbage bags stuffed full as I could stuff them. But that is nothing to what I used to rake at one go. I had raked 4 a few days ago. I still have quite a few to go, and keep waiting for the rest of the leaves to fall from a neighbor's tulip poplar and another neighbor's maple tree. Bubbie was my constant companion through it all.
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I think I am warming up leftover meatloaf for supper...we need to eat on it. Seems like at times, I love meatloaf and will have made one that is on the small side. Then I make one a bit bigger, and we don't seem to enjoy it as much. Anyway, I need to get in there and at least set it out. I will actually probably put it in the oven later and let it warm up that way. Most of the time we just warm up what we eat in the microwave.
I should have been outside working in leaves...but I have sat here instead. And I did sew a few stitches.
I don't know if it was real bad allergies or what, but was sick a couple days this past week...but it passed quickly. My throat was sore and I blew and blew and blew my nose the first morn. Normally, Roger never volunteers to stay home for breakfast, but he looked at me and said, 'We don't have to go anywhere this morn....don't even worry about it.' I don't know if it was how I sounded or how I looked or both. LOL I always sound and feel worse early in the morn.
I hope you all have a good week...I feel like I am forgetting something I wanted to ask but cannot think what it is for the life of me.
