Victoria sampler bellpull

I lay the needlework on top of my backing fabric (which is face up), straight pin the two fabrics together and then carefully hand baste the two fabrics together. Use thread that is a different color than your needlework fabric and DO NOT KNOT YOUR BASTING THREAD!!! I baste in both directions (vert. & horiz.) starting at the center and working out. You want to use large stitches (maybe an inch long) and cover the entire fabric with basting lines that are no more than two inches apart. This makes the two separate fabrics "behave" as one fabric when you begin constructing the bellpull. Once the bellpull finishing is completed, just pull out the basting threads -- this is why you don't want to use knots in the basting thread :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Tammy where did you find this bell pull? I love doing monthly pieces and am looking for a magazine/book with new ones in them. Thanks!

True

These are available at

Addie

I plan to stitch the Victoria Sampler birthday needle rolls for my five grand-daughters. I will frame them as small pictures, 5x7, and give it to each girl on her thirteenth birthday. I guess I had better get started soon, since the oldest is now 11!

Gillian

Addie Otto wrote:

Did you mean to say: Lay the bell pull face up. Lay the backing fabric face down on the bell pull? Right sides are together.

Ahhh. In essence you are "gridding"? That's a good trick when using slippery flabrics, I'll bet!

Dianne

By backing fabric I meant the colored fabric that the original poster mentioned. I **assumed** (NOT a good thing to do) that the bell pull has some pulled work or hardanger or some such and she wanted to have a pretty colored fabric behind the open areas in the needlework. I should have used the term lining fabric but I couldn't for the life of me think of that word!!! Yes, in essence I am gridding the two fabrics together but you don't have to be very precise in thread placement. I do this a lot when dealing with specialty garment fabrics like bridal laces, satins, taffeta, etc. I also do this when I am having something framed that needs to have a pretty fabric behind the needlework. I have a lovely snowflake done on what I think is 13 ct. lilac canvas and I had it framed with silver lame' behind it. The SMDGD birth sampler I did for MOI has a bunch of pulled work, drawn thread & hardanger in it and I have it framed with a lovely batik with gold swirls behind that needlework. Both pieces had the two fabrics basted together before I gave them to the framer. If I hadn't done it this way, I would have had to pay TWICE for fabric mounting!!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Victoria Sampler--Birthday Bell Pulls there are 3 patterns altogether.

Tia Mary wrote:

You were right, Tia Mary. Here's her original question: "I would llike to attatch a coloured fabric just behind the hardanger is there anyway of doing this? " So in this case you would have *both* pieces of fabric right side up (right side of backing fabric to wrong side of hardanger piece) when basting them together. I think Dianne must have missed the hardanger part of the question.

HTH

Joan