After being sidetracked by the little lambs yesterday, back to what we did at the weekend. On Sunday, we went for a walk aloong the river in Jedburgh, where this seagull flapped his wings, just as I clicked!!
The butterbur is just starting to flower on the riverbank
We went past the John Deere dealership ...... if only I had somewhere to park this!!
Although the blossom was springlike ........
......... it was decidedly chilly, and we abandoned the walk. We headed to Border Meringues, where we had cake for lunch! We shared a delicious cheese scone
and this sticky sweet confection, with marshmallows, cherries and coconut
On both Saturday and Sunday I was working on the prep for the stitcheries, cutting out the blocks, then ironing on the transfers for the embroidery
The last task was to tack the blocks to thin cotton wadding
I also made a start to Lilly Pilly, tracing the tree trunk and branches on to bondaweb
then cutting the pieces out and arranging them on the fabric
This afternoon, I covered the fabric and bondaweb with some nonstick baking parchment, and bonded them using a hot iron
Next, I cleared the worktables and put a heat proof cover over them, then put the paper pattern on top - I had turned it to the wrong side and traced the outline of thhe tree, as the pattern is reversed when you use bondaweb
I added the background fabric, then put the tree in place
I will need Malcolm's help with the next stage ..... carefully pulling the pattern out from underneath, so that I can then bond the tree in place. Then I will have to cut out lots and lots ..... and lots of leaves!
After the cute little lambs yesterday, here are some ewes snoozing away the afternoon in a neighbour's old apple orchard