Pink Paisley!

Hi everyone.  Surgery was cancelled/postponed until after Thanksgiving.  Thank you for the well wishes.  Since Mark had already scheduled the day off and they postponed last minute, we decided to drive to the outlets and I stopped at the quilt shop in New Wilmington.  The pink linen I'm offering has been really difficult to match with a backing fabric since it's a warmer pink.  In the entire shop, we only found one line that matched and it's Martinique by Moda (3 sisters) in shell.   Other fabric patterns with the shell background in that line work, but I think the paisley is something different.  This fat quarter will be included with the offer.  

Isn't it gorgeous?  If you don't care for this, check the Martinique line for a good match if you require a backing.

  I found this photo on Pinterest

 and  it reaffirmed my desire for unframed pieces.  Here I go again making some of you queasy, but I like how the bottom one is hanging the best.  Yikes.  Yes I know this would distort the linen threads.  But as I said, linen is very strong and when I'm saying goodbye to this world,  I won't be thinking about how my pieces will survive.  I want to enjoy my work, not preserve it.  When I showed you the way I hang samplers on large baskets (the mylar strip inside a folded edge), same principle here.  If the sampler is to be hem stitched, I would sew twill tape inside the top hem. 

    I've tried the 3M mounting tapes and they stick to the wall, but not the linen.  I'm thinking - poking nails through the ends of twill tape.  At the linen's top edge, machine sew the top and bottom of the nail tape to the linen with a basting stitch and matching thread.   With careful measuring for placement, I think this would work great. The nail heads would be hidden, embedded in the tape, no holes or strain on the linen.  The matching machine thread would disappear so it won't matter if I have the piece fringed or hemmed to begin with.  And no marks on the front to interfere with framing later.  You know......just in case I change my mind.   I'm trying this!  I'll let you know how it works.

That's it.  I've been working on boxes and will have a few for sale in the near future.  I've been waiting for more to come in for weeks and ........ still waiting.  Today I am hopefully stitching without a brace most of the day while I sit here nursing a minor head cold.  I'm having fun with pear designs and worked up a few more that need to be stitched, too.  Hopefully I'll have progress to show next post.  Until then, enjoy this week of October, with its cold nights and cool days, dreary damp rainy days, brilliant colored leaves stuck in the mud, dead summer flowers, woodpeckers drilling your siding for a new home, and spiders as big as a VW trying to get into a warm house.  Did I happen to mention I miss summer?

Hello and welcome to new followers - hope you enjoy your visits.  And thank you all for spending your time with me.

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