Sunday, May 23, 2010

Finishing

Today was finishing day. Almost to hot to be outside so I decided to get my new item for the website done. Jean stitched this little piece by La D Da some time back. I just loved the colors and design, but could not decide how to finish it, so today I just started in on it.
I used quilt fabric on the back it is a green with black printed design. The green was the wrong shade so I removed some of the color using Rit Color remover it turned the green from Forest green to a yellow green, just what I was looking for.
Then I stuffed it with sawdust nice and firm, so what to do with the edge. I like cording, but it usually makes my things look to formal, not what I was looking for. I did have some black twill tape so I couched it down over the seam and I am quite pleased with the end result.


I did take a few picture of the Lillies that are in full bloom now. While our weather here is hot in the 90's I talked with my mom in Idaho and she said they had snow yesterday so go figure.


I hope that everyone has a good week, because next weekend is extra long!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a lovely finish! I really like the couched twill tape around the edge.

KarenV

samplerlover said...

Just found your wonderful blog. I agree with Karen V, what a wonderful finish and the couched tape looks wonderful. I also love your post re the A&E samplers. Beautiful work.
Could you tell me the name of the sampler that is in your header. It looks wonderful.

Carmen Sutton said...

The sampler in the header of my blog is one that I designed and will be releasing as a pattern. I'm planing on having my big debut at the 2011 Nashville needle market. I will be in the same booth as Carriage House and Notforgotten Farm. I will have updates here on the blog.
Thanks so much for asking