Using water soluble stabilizer to create fabric is one of the most fun things I do. Not all scrap piece backgrounds need the stabilizer, but when using really skinny strips, it makes things much easier.
With that soluble over the top, your quilting foot simply glides over all those edges without getting caught. I started this one with some ‘straight’ lines from top to bottom and I immediately started questioning whether or not I should leave them.
I finished the stitching and still didn’t like them, but decided to wash out the soluble before I made a final decision. Sometimes all the stitching covers up what you don’t like so much.
Nope–so now I have to wait for it to dry, but those long, straight, distracting lines will be coming out!
And I had a flower all ready to go from my demo of making magic fabric at quilt guild, so I went ahead and stitched that up, too.
This is only part way through the sewing. It needs a lot of stitches to hold this together! And before I finished it up, I put some glitzy thread in the bobbin and added that. You can always add more on top of the soluble when making this–that’s part of the magic!
And–voila–a hyacinth looking for a little flowerpot, I think!
And I still have that biiiiig piece of magic fabric background waiting to be used also. I think I’m going to have an entire garden made from mashed together scraps!
This pic is part way through the stitching also. Hope this gives you an idea of how very much stitching is needed to hold tiny scraps together! But having all those little sparkly bits of color on your art quilt is worth it!