Quilted Vintage Hankie Using Digitized Designs

It's been awhile! Websites are difficult to keep up with! I use Facebook for my daily posts, but for my friends who aren't on FB, this is a great place to share my work. I also sell my rulers here and have information on my speaking and workshops. What did we do before social media!???I've just finished another hankie, but this time I used the computer for 90% of the piece. It's for an upcoming class I'm teaching in Australia (yes, I said AUSTRALIA!!!) I am super excited and finishing up so many sample pieces for the variety of classes. This is for a class called, "Prostitcher and Beyond". The PS (as we call her in the Handi Quilter world) is a fabulous computer that some days does a majority of my work. She is my very loved, personal assistant, that goes by Patty Sue, when we are alone in the studio ;)The hankie began very simply, stitched onto a piece of white satin, roughly 20" square. The wonderful "pouf" is created by two layers of Hobbs batting, wool on top of 80/20. I always use Glide thread, this color is Cream. White on white is tough to see in photos, especially when there is nothing there. Now, add some quilting magic and it starts to take shape! I forgot to take a photo of JUST the motif, but it was an outlined shape, without anything filled in. The digitized motif is by Kim Brunner and can be found here. It is free in my PS library! Over 1000 designs come in that library and rarely do I need to purchase anything.

I used a different fill in each space, bubbles, scribbling and some ruler work.

The tatting on this piece is unbelievable, which is why I chose it! OH, and that sweet butterfly!

The finish! I added a piano key border, also found in my PS library, created by Susan Manry.

I added glass beads to tack down the tatting. The dime gives an idea of the scale.

Each finished piece becomes my favorite! I'll add this one to the list!