brother in law

 

My brother in law

(husband's youngest brother)

became sixty last Tuesday

and we celebrate that fact with a party tomorrow.

 

For a little present I made all the preparations

for another "stitch-and-burn" piece

 

by painting the "lutradur" (kind of thick polyester interface)

the "vliesofix" (wonder under) and ironing 

unpainted vliesofix onto the polyester velvet.

 

 

Cut, ironed

and topped up with polyester sheer pieces

 

 

The fun part is the stitching

with  COTTON (!)  thread

...

but

 

DON'T FORGET TO PUT THE PRESSER FOOT DOWN !

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

otherwise, you'll end up with this nasty mess of loops

at the backside

which you have to undo

and start anew

(do you see the amount of thread, I did it móre than once ...)

This happens  because, with this "quilting" presser foot,

I have to put the foot down in some semi down position ...

which I sometimes forget !

 

I did the burning today outside in the sunshine

(it stinks ! thought I didn't burn out a lot,

I did it outside anyway)

 

You can see the "60" here in the design

though it isn't too obvious in the whole piece

 

(I think ...)

 

 

In this picture against the bright sunlight

 

you can clearly see I used the leftover cut out shapes 

of the circles to complement the square design

...

no initial plan, that just happened

*

 

And in that sunny garden

 

 

BLUE  ! 

 

and a bit of brown