WIPW - Cultivating Hexablooms

 Work In Progress Wednesday.

The Green Man

I have added more Colonial Knots to his face!

Hexablooms

This is how I cultivate my hexablooms:

I use scraps of cardboard cut into hexagons. 

I punch a hole in each one (this is a great trick I learned from Linda of Lins Arty Blobs, the hole makes it easy to remove the cardboard when it is no longer needed).

I use small Clover clips instead of pins to hold the fabric stretched in place over the card. 

I fold the left side over the right side at each corner.

Without making a knot I make three Back Stitches at a corner, then move anti-clockwise to the next fold and make two Back Stitches. At the last fold, I make another three BS.

I take one hexagon with metallic fabric for the middle of the flower and one (pink) cotton for the first petal.

I join them right sides together with clips and whip-stitch them together. I use no knot but take three stitches at the start and three at the end of the line.

Joined together they look like this.

Without cutting the thread I continue to stitch on the second petal.

Then time for the third petal.

All six petals are attached to the metallic in the middle.

Using a crochet hook, I remove the paper card by lifting it out from the metallic hexagon.

With the card in the middle out of the way, I can fold the flower over and whip-stitch the pink petals to each other.

That is how I cultivate my Hexablooms.