Wednesday, December 11, 2019

There was a suggestion...

...about how to sew the Santas together properly and have them come out nicely.  My friend Galdra from Magical Quilts and More suggested I stitch the backstitching around the Santa like I'm making a biscornu.


So I did!  That was fun.  I cut off the excess corners and stitched the other side so I could have two sided ornaments.  It was easy to whip stitch them together too.  A quick stuff later and we have this:



Side one and side two.  I tried really hard to get that stuffing in the bottom tip but it wasn't having it as well as I'd have liked.  Time to make cording!  I love making cording.  I'll make it all day long.


Not too shabby if you ask me and now I can power on with the ornaments and package them up ready to send!  I'll share that tomorrow.

I missed the last few days of blog posting because I was working.  Seven days in a row is not a good plan when most of those shifts are 9 to 11 hours at a time.  Next three days off so expect some good stuff!

I hope you are all having a lovely day and get some stitching in.

Until next time......KEEP ON STITCHIN'!


9 comments:

  1. It looks fantastic! I'm so glad the suggestion helped <3

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  2. Oh I love that idea! I swear I love doing the biscornu pillow method. Just so easy to do. That's how all my square little monthly pillows were done. You can use a chop stick with a blunt end to get to the very edge corners. Just be careful not to push too hard.

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    1. I used chop sticks and the blunt end of a crochet hook, but then got the paper crease thing and that works even better :D

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  3. Magical is a master of ornament finishing so I'm not surprised her suggestions worked out - and you executed them so well!

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    1. It's funny that I had not considered this option myself but like I say later, I was done with the ornaments at this point haha!

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  4. WOW!!! These are fantastic! Love how you've finished them! She really has great ideas :)

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