It was a spooky solar daytime of quilting for my Valentine's Day, as well as I'm happy to tell that the entire pump panel of Hocuspocusville is finished. Next I'll live on moving to the embroidered blocks. The pump panel was the hardest purpose for me, as well as thus I'm glad to induce got it this far. The residue should live on fairly easy.
So I alluded to my method yesterday, as well as I'll demo you lot what I did correct now. Here's the thing well-nigh quilting. It's difficult for those of us who can't depict worth beans. And thus I ever induce got about groovy ideas well-nigh what I'd similar to quilt, but no existent powerfulness to interpret my ideas into a quilted motif. Some of you lot mightiness retrieve when I quilted "We Are the World."
I used a purchased pantograph as well as and then traced it onto Press 'n Seal thus that I could quilt each block individually.
It was a bugger getting all that Press 'n Seal out from nether the stitching, as well as I swore I'd never produce it again. On the other hand, I was preparing to produce about pocket-sized motifs inwards the setting triangles of Hocuspocusville. How bad could it be? So here's what I did. I kickoff constitute about spooky Halloween motifs on the internet, as well as and then resized them to jibe the infinite I had to operate with. The spiders were well-nigh 2 inches square.
Then I printed it out as well as cutting it out to live on certain it jibe inwards the infinite I had. It does.
So then, I traced it onto the Press 'n Seal using a sharpie. (I switched to a finer signal later.)
The Press 'n Seal adheres to the cloth pretty well, but I pivot mine but to live on certain it doesn't shift equally I'm stitching.
Then, I stitched correct through it. I've had no problems amongst this gumming upwards my needle.
After that, you lot but tear the Press 'n Seal away. I'm non gonna prevarication as well as tell this is easy, but for pocket-sized motifs, it is doable.
It's hardest to travel out of the niggling spaces, similar betwixt the spider's legs. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pivot as well as about abrupt tweezers are your best friends here. With a niggling patience as well as persistence, you lot tin larn it off inwards a few minutes. And in that place you lot induce got a overnice niggling spider to sit down downward beside her.
I induce got to write fast this morning, as well as thus I'll but demo you lot the pictures of the residue of them. There were 12 setting triangles, as well as the 4 corner setting triangles. The hardest purpose was coming upwards amongst unlike motifs for each one.
First, the skull as well as crossbones:
Flying witch:
Quoth the raven, Nevermore.
I position a spider inwards each of the 4 corners.
This is the i motif I stitched free-hand...the witch's broom.
This i is a partial pantograph I constitute online for a ghost. It's a niggling difficult to brand out. I mightiness determine to modify this one.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 jack-o-lantern. This i was seen on The Inbox Jaunt from Lori Kennedy.
Scary Halloween Cat:
You see, you lot but arch your dorsum upwards similar this, as well as fluff upwards your tail...oh, Smitty could in all likelihood demo you lot the tail improve than I can.
Oh, as well as I form of similar this purrsition. Look what I tin produce from here.
See? And then...just similar magic...I tin apurr on the other side. Cool!
Okay, as well as and then a tombstone.
Batman.
This ghost. I wasn't happy amongst this one. For i thing, it was besides small, as well as I decided to accept it out.
Instead, I position inwards a witch's cauldron.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 witch's hat...
And a witch's shoe.
And that was my solar daytime of quilting.
From there, it was Valentine's Day cooking. Mike brought me these pretty tulips.
I made us a dinner of Sea Scallop Risotto. What you lot run across hither is a heart-shaped risotto amongst about asparagus over the transcend as well as scallops all around, amongst Newburg sauce over all.
I was wishing I'd taken a movie of the heart-shaped risotto earlier I smothered it inwards other stuff. But as well as then Mike asked for seconds as well as thus I took a movie then. I but loaded the glutinous risotto into a heart-shaped cookie cutter, elevator off the cookie cutter, as well as voila! Just similar the soux chef would do.
For dessert nosotros had the warm carrot cakes amongst cream cheese sauce. Yum! This is a dessert for two, as well as thus you lot tin induce got a slice of carrot cake without having to swallow the whole cake.
The recipe says to bake the niggling cakes inwards 4-oz. ramekins, as well as mine were 8-oz., thus they didn't bake upwards equally tall. Mine were to a greater extent than similar muffins. It didn't matter. They were yummy. I'll definitely brand these again.
Okay, thus time's up. I'm walking amongst Sue, as well as I demand to larn going. It's going to live on moisture this morning.