Good morning, my friends, and Happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm getting my Irish up today, but only because my great-grandfather was an Irish immigrant. It means I'll be making something Irish for dinner tonight. The Google tells me that to "get one's Irish up" means "to become angry or outraged." Rest assured there's nothing angry or outrageous going on here, unless you're talking about reading the news in the morning. For that, I make an exception.
So let's just see what's going on. For one thing, I told you yesterday I would be taking the first stitches on the basil block yesterday. Actually, it was the oregano block. Admittedly, they look a lot alike.
I needed to select the fabrics I'd be using.
Smitty was johnny-on-the-spot to help me.
Hold the fabric? Sure thing.
It made sense to do all the cutting first. I needed to cut nine circles the size of the template below. I looked around my sewing room for something I could use to draw a circle. The bottom of a thread spool was pretty close to the right size.
And I cut out all those circles, but that was dumb. I'm doing fusible applique with this, and now it will be hard to add the fusing medium to the back.
I'll see if I can work with these, but if not, I might need to press a swatch of fabric to the fusing medium and then cut them out. I have some ideas for how I can do this without needing to recut them, although it hardly matters. I'll have to cut those circles from the fusing medium no matter what I do. I might as well remake them. Thank you for talking this over with me. I believe I've made my decision.
From there I was ready to start sewing. The first Easter egg is made from these colors.
When I finished the strip set, I used a template to cut an egg shape from it. I'm using Wonder Under fusible for this.
Please tell me how I may assist.
When all the cutting was finished, I had these pieces. You can't see them very well in this photo, but there are smaller pieces of each color lying on top.
My favorite fusible is Heat 'n Bond, but I have a whole roll of Wonder Under. I decided to give it another try. I still don't like it any more than I did the first time I used it. It's very difficult to remove the paper, and even then, the fusible peels up with the paper. It's a popular product, but I don't like it. Possibly, I need to hold the iron to it a little longer. I'll give that a try today, and maybe I'll get better results.
So today's agenda includes baking a traditional Irish soda bread. We'll have that with some Irish potato soup for our dinner. Then, for dessert, I'm baking a Chocolate Guinness Cake for Two. It's a cake I've made before, and it is among my favorites. Also today, I'd like to get in a walk on the treadmill. Seems like a good way to walk off that chocolate cake before I eat it.
So I hope you have a good St. Patrick's Day. Don't forget to wear some green. For now, I'll leave you with this:
6 comments:
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. ~ Marianne Williamson
Happy St. Pat's Day to you! Enjoy that cake!
Count to 10 when you fuse WW with a dry iron using the wool setting . It’s my favorite fusible. Lighter than H&B.
Thank you for the review of Wonder Under because I've toyed with getting some to try. Now I won't. I'll stick to HeatnBond and maybe some Misty Fuse when I remember I have some.
You've got a good start on those easter eggs. Sometimes we cut before we think. I did that last week, so you aren't alone. Hope you enjoyed your Irish dinner.
Happy St Pat's from another Irish. I'm the poor side.
About wonder under. Use steam. If your bolt of wonder under is not encased in plastic, do so now. Do not let it dry out any more. It's dry, the reason the stic'um doesn't stick. slice the back of any cut out with a pin. Peel from the middle of cut out rather than the edges. Wonder under and sticky notes. My life is good.
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