Sopwell continued —

I had another morning to work on The Sopwell Ladies Basket Society and got the rest of block 5 finished! I didn't have much to do; just the stitching on this block, and a few more circles.

One small part of Block Five!

I had a few questions after my last post about using the Karen Kay Buckley Perfect Circles, and my process for the applique (what I call invisible turned under machine applique) so I took a few photos while I was working to share.

After gathering the fabric around the template, paint or spray some
 diluted starch on (how you do it depends on what brand you have)
 and press with a medium heat iron.

Once the fabric is dry, remove the template and re-press to keep the
shape. You can see it keeps its perfect shape well with a bit of starch!

Baste or glue the circle to the background fabric.
(You can see here I didn't quite get it dead centre but the square is larger and
gets trimmed down.)

I have a clear invisible thread in the top and my normal sewing thread in the
bobbin. Set the zig-zag to width and length 1.1.
(It's narrow enough that I can keep my quilter's foot on.) 

I pull all the threads to the back to knot them together, then trim.

Here is the completed block 5.

There's one more block and then it will be done. I've done parts of it but I probably won't get back to it until after Christmas.
Day 11 of my 31 day blog writing challenge done!!

'til next time,

happy stitches,