Dream Flowers - Designer: Frieda Oxenham

Enjoy this pretty bonus quilted project from Frieda.

Stand and Stare Fabric Postcard
Finished size 10cm x 15 cm (4 x 6")

Additional materials to those listed in the magazine…

• Fast2Fuse interfacing
• Shrink plastic
• Stamps Unlimited Impressions GM171 (window view stamp)
• Stamps Unlimited Impressions M510 (quotation)

Using 10cm x 15cm (4” x 6") pieces iron one of your painted fabrics to the Fast2Fuse. Stamp the window view as shown using a green Versacraft inkpad. Heat set using your iron. Embellish with hand stitching and beading. Stamp on the leaf (from CL496) as shown and stitch. Stamp quotation on one of your other fabrics, tear to size and stitch on by hand as shown. Finally stamp the large flower (CG284) onto shrink plastic, colour in using colouring pencils, make a hole in the centre, and shrink following the manufacturer’s instructions.

Iron backing fabric to the other side of the Fast2Fuse, stitch around the edges using buttonhole stitch and a variegated thread. Stitch on the shrink plastic flower using a size 11 seed bead through the centre.

Updated: 30 August 2011