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    This is Annie Whitsed's Crazy World a world where I stitch the joys and chaos of life into beautifull crazy quilts. email annie@loopylace.com
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Under the Mango Tree – Detail 338 July 17th, 2007

This morning I had the curtin nearly done on mum’s block when I had a slight mishap and decided to remove it and try again, I will tell you that saga tomorrow because I decided that what I wanted to do on the join would be easier to do before the curtin was on the block…

Original photo of the Mango TreeSo I have joined mum’s block to Dad’s block and appliqued an image of the Mango Tree over the seam so that they both fall under its canopy…The Mango Tree is in the Middle of the Backyard, A Grand Old Tree that is dear to us all and I am relieved that it has turned out as well as I’d hoped because I want to name mum’s quilt “Under The Mango Tree”…

The Photo on the right was the best one I could find that had good detail of the trunk, I copied a section of leaves from another photo to extend the canopy on the left side…I also liked that this image had the kids playing in the tree…and at this point I would like to Thank and give credit to my neice who took this photo as well as the grindstone and the chook when I gave her free use of my digital camera a couple of christmasses ago.

To applique the images done with T shirt Tranfer paper I print the image on the Transfer Paper and cut it out at the edge of the image before ironing it onto the fabric, this gives me a soft edge to stitch into, I do needle turn applique because I don’t want pin holes in the image, the T shirt transfers have a plastic surface and are a little stiff but if I take my time its not much of a problem and worth it for the effect…

Detail of pen line around T shirt transferWhat I have found a problem is that to get the best colour I transfer the images onto white fabric but white fabric is the hardest to applique because even the smallest speck of white showing draws the eye so I have to be carefull to turn under every bit of white…But I solved that problem today, after ironing the transfer onto the white fabric and before I peeled of the paper I used a black pen to draw around the trunk and a green fabric pen to draw around the leaves and because a little bit of black showing looks like a shadow and dissappears into the background it made the applique much easier.

join 24 The Mango Tree