Estelle’s Blanket – Appliqué Block 1: Chickadee

I’m finally returning to working on Estelle’s blanket! For the first appliqué block, I’m using a block from a BOM (Block of the Month) program from a site I subscribe to

The original block had lemons incorporated in the design but since I’m doing one that’s geared towards my sister’s birthday month I swapped them for pansies that I designed.

Since I wasn’t sure about sizing and placement, I used Sulky Paper Solvy to make sure of the placement and the five little pieces for each

 

Here’s what I was playing with for figuring out where the pansies and leaves would go

 

 

Here’s the work in progress. As you can see each pansy has five pieces so placement was critical

 

 

In this close up you can see how they fit. As as well, you can see something that I learned: You can’t iron sulky paper solvy!

 

 

Here’s the piece almost finished. I added some shading using Tsukineko Ink pens around the leaves and on the ribbon. Then I did some free motion stitches for the pansy leaves.