SAMPLER FINISH

The "Spring Sampler" is complete!

The pattern I used is by Bonnie Sullivan of "All Through the Night".  It was designed to be a framed piece.  Instead, I added the two framing borders and hand quilted it.  The sampler is a combination of wool and some embroidery on cotton.  The alphabet was meant to be satin stitch embroidery which I am not very good at.  Instead, I used wool.  I scanned the alphabet into the computer, reversed them, traced to the paper side of Heat 'n Bond Lite (using a light table), and then fused it to dark brown wool.  I used small, sharp embroidery scissors to cut out the letters.  The cotton fabric was placed over the sampler pattern on the light table so that I had a guide for placement of all the parts.  I then slid a June Taylor pressing board under the fabric and fused the pieces as best as I could.  Anything that did not fuse well because of thickness, I used a dab or two of glue to hold in place.  I used cotton thread to stitch the edges of the wool pieces but floss could just as well be used.  I also used wool for the bees instead of satin stitching.  Bonnie has other patterns with wool and stitched words that I like but I think this is going to be the only one I do.

Back to my stitching.

Karen