The Aunts: Phase Two Begins
With all of the pieced blocks for The Aunts' Quilt completed, I began bonding the twenty appliqué blocks. One is now completely buttonhole-stitched. It took about two weeks to do it. I'm going to be at this for a very long time, but that's okay. I do it in front of "Better Call Saul Season 5 (we re-watched Season 4 as a review)" in the evenings and at Guild and at book club.
I'd purchased 4 skeins of DMC 581when I began. I was surprised when this block used a whole skein and a tiny bit more. I button-hole using two strands. Heading out to Michael's today to buy what they have left of 581!
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Comments
I'm also surprised at the amount of embroidery floss this block used up. If you need me to, I can look at Michael's here for more of the DMC 581 floss.
You've inspired me to get back to a barely started cross stitch flower sampler that I still want to make these 30 years later. The pattern is in a booklet titled "Antique Museum Samplers adapted from The Cooper- Hewitt Museum Collection" by Paragon Needlecraft. I am using a black #14 Aida fabric but the maker of the original sampler cross stitched the entire background in black.
Hugs!
Starr Brown