talking textiles

Taking some vintage floral fabric-I had the hard task of deciding whether to keep it as a whole or cut it up to create a new applique design. Holding this beautiful piece of cloth in my hand-I knew I had to make a decison......but when I relised it had been lovingly cared for in my fabric box for ten years........the decison was made for me!







I tend to use Bondaweb for my applique as the fabric was quite heavy then I embellished with stitch-simple stitches to highlite areas and I avoided machine as I wanted to keep the effect quite light!