Noah & Matilda Borders

I have spent the last several days working on my Noah and Matilda borders.

So many little pieces to prep. 

This is my work station with most of  the little tools I use.  I especially want you to notice the hi tech holder for my sizing  and brush.  I tend to use what ever works for me.

Warning this next picture may be a little frightening to see even after I touched it up a bit.

If you look under my appliqué pressing sheets ( actually I use a teflon oven sheet) you can see how badly my ironing board cover appears to be  scorched.

Those little irons get really hot so I have folded an old sheet and placed it under my teflon sheet to keep from damaging my actual ironing board cover.

Now that these bits were ready it was time to move on to the grapes. There are 204 little grapes in this border.

 Looking for a way to speed up the process I started going through my go dies and found one with a circle the size I needed.  So I used some heat resistant templar and cut out several circles.

I then began the process of stitching and turning circles.

Aren’t they cute all lined up in their crooked little lines?

With all the prep work completed I am stitching away on the borders now.  

To be honest I find the actual stitching a little boring.  The prep part is what I enjoy the most.  It’s kind of like working on a puzzle and once I have seen the picture I am ready for something else.

Maybe that’s why I have so many blocks and borders ready to stitch. Wink, Wink .

Some of you may have noticed I changed the top flower just a little.  I just couldn’t see me ever stitching so many of the original. They are so much smaller than they appear in this picture.

If you are like me and you don’t have enough projects let me tell you about a couple more.

Ester Aliu has an new free BOM called "Oma’s Blues" seen here and

Pearl P Pereira Designs is offering another free one "Bountiful Baskets" here.  

They are both real beauties.

Happy stitching,

Nancy