Orange crazy patchwork 2

I did another seam treatment with irregular herringbone stiches in a gold perlé thread.

Then I started thinking about a button. I’ve got some orange plastic ones in various sizes but, when I went to get the jar, I spotted these wooden butterfly ones.

Before laying them on the pocket, I thought this orange and yellow one looked perfect, but it got lost in the colours around it.

I thought that the red one was too bright, but it did pick up the rust tones in the eyelets.

I had a quick look on YouTube to remind me how to do a bound buttonhole, last done at school more than 50 years ago. I just marked it in water soluble pen and, too impatient to tack it all, machine stitched with a small stitch round the box….

……. and cut through both layers, down the middle and diagonally into the corners, ……

…… turned it through and pressed it, ……

……. made the “lips” and machined in the ditch (not meant to machine stitch it). It should be done invisibly on the wrong side.

I then did another one to go on the back, stitched the lining to the pocket, and realised that I’d not left an opening to turn it through. I trimmed the corners and managed to turn it through the buttonhole opening…..

……. only to realise I’d attached the second buttonhole on the back of the first one and not to the pocket lining! I’d used a small machine stitch again and need to unpick it, or use a big press stud on the back and just stitch the button on the front. At least I hadn’t attached the pocket to the jacket, but I’ve run out of patience with it for today!

Orange crazy patchwork

This was last seen on my first post about my embellished jacket, when I was looking at pieces to include on it. After I had stitched on several pieces, the orange crazy patchwork didn’t look right in any of the remaining spaces. It was abandoned again. I’m not sure when or when it was started, or what I had originally had in mind to do with it.

I have at some stage done some more stitching on it, possibly at “in the stitch zone” when practising for the crazy patchwork colour play project, but no photos of work in progress. At some stage last year, I realised that it would make a very useful patch pocket on an orange very fine needlecord jacket / shirt that I wear.

Hence the pins and tacking, but abandoned again before it got finished. I had started some backstitching on the butterfly…..

…..so when I picked it up again this week, I carried on outlining the butterfly and adding the veins….

….. it’s been good to work on something so bright and cheerful on the dull days we’ve had most of the week, although we have had two bright sunny days and wonderful blue sky that enticed me out of hibernation.

More stitching needed before I make the pocket, but some progress has been made, and I’ve kept to my not starting anything new in the New Year until I have finished off something in progress. The Red Clover piece was a bit of a cheat, in that as I started it between Christmas and New Year, technically it was my first finish of the year.