After choosing the flower templates from those provided by Gail, we collected together suitable fabric, traced the outlines onto Bondaweb or an equivalent fabric and transferred it onto the material.
Careful cutting out was needed and then the artistic work began with the laying out of the design.
Gail gave us some tips about how to easily remove the bondaweb ( scratch with a pin to break the static seal).
Once happy with the layout of the design they were pinned minimally to the layered background ( to stop the design flying off on the transfer to ironing board) ready to be ironed on.
Then we learnt about free motion stitching to sew around the edges of all the shapes. The good thing was that it wasn't important to be really accurate as when you have gone around the outline several times the thread creates a great effect.
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