Garden Path - Jacket - Part XXXII

Next Embellishments

Thank you all for the comments regarding the children and their first day of school! They both are very happy to be back in school, so yes, they love to read, too. My daughter took her new book cover to school (after a little more embellishing and assembling by mom) and it was loved by her classmates. It is amazing what a little paint will do for the good old paper bag book cover.

It looks like I'll be ready on Monday to start work on the next embellishments for the garden border - these will also be the last embellishments, at least I think so While this garden is pretty, it needs a little something extra that all gardens have - insects!

Do you remember the crickets from Midnight Garden? They're back! They'll be green this time, as I have the perfect green beads and sequins for them. Joining them will be ants, ladybugs, bees, butterflies and a dragonfly all made of beads and sequins.

I've already started to put together the ziplock bag for the insects. Eventually, each insect type will have their very own smaller bag after I determine which beads and sequins will be used for which insects. This is much like the system I have for all the flowers. Each flower has a bag with the templates, beads, sequins and thread to make the flower. Once the flowers are done, I will take all their beads and sequins and put them in this bag for auditions.

I started on the artwork today and will be working on the final drawings tommorrow. Since they're small and reasonably simple, I should be able to finish them quickly. I've drawn inspiration from two places. One is my vintage embroidery transfer collection:

The other is from the various butterflies that Allie has stitched and used in her pieces, along with those ants that travel along the banner at the top of her blog. Her butterflies are beautiful - scroll through the link, because that link has all of her butterfly posts.

These are little creatures, so once I figure out how I want them to look, making them should be quick!

Q/A: Regarding the hat I tested for Katrin, xstpenguin had this question: "Can you tell me what you used for interfacing and in the brim?" For the interfacing I just used a medium weight fusible since the outer fabric was a heavier weight home decorator type canvas. I used buckram in the brim because I had a scrap that was just large enough to cut the two brim pieces. Lacking that I would have had to used a couple of layers of a heavier fusible or actually bought something appropriate.

Parting Shot: A Flower. The sunflower finally has a flower and now we're waiting for the typical yellow bloom. It is hard to believe that this plant which is now 7 feet tall was started from one seed planted by my son back in April.