Sneak peek -

It doesn't look like much yet -

And I'll give you a sneak peek in a minute -

But first - let me start with these guys - ;))

I didn't think that I had enough background -

So I made some more confetti from these -

And put them on their own plate -

Then I found a piece of foam core board - 20" x 30" in the closet -

And used that as a base so I could carry it from the kitchen island to the "studio" without messing it up -

Then cut a fat quarter from some pale yellow for the backing -

Cut a piece of polyester batting about an inch shorter all around -

And laid that on top of the yellow backing -

And spread out all of the plates -

That made me feel like a kid with a new box of crayons - LOL - ;))

Like I said -

It doesn't look like much yet -

And I don't want to spoil the ending -

The first layer is all of the background stuff -

And a general layout of the sections -

But here's some of the "leaf" background -

And some of the "ground" -

This is a shot of the YELLOW backing (that my camera thinks is GREEN) -

And you can see why it will have a second backing when I add the next layer -

So my wonky stitching won't show - ;))

The foam core board worked wonderfully for transporting the "work in progress" to the sewing machine without getting confetti all over the place - LOL - ;))

The least fun part of it so far was stopping to re-thread the monofilament thread that kept snapping. My normal tension setting is 3.5 - so I lowered it 2 whole numbers - to 1.5 - and it still kept breaking. I slowed waaaaaaaaay down and that seemed to help - but FMQ that first layer was a royal pain. I'll switch to 100% cotton thread for the second layer - I should have fewer issues with that - ;))

Tomorrow I have some chores to do before company comes for the weekend -

So I won't be able to play with this again for a couple of days -

The second layer has all of the FUN stuff -

So when I get that done -

I'll show you more - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -