Merricks Nth, Month Two, Post One
Merricks Nth, Month Two, has two elements. The first one is complete! These are Sawtooth Stars that are shorter than they are wide, if you can imagine such a thing. I'm thinking of them as Squished Sawtooths. I pieced them by machine. It took longer than I thought it would and I'm a little bit concerned about a couple of the points. I may have a bit of adjusting to do. We'll see. The second element is applique. Orange peel applique, to be precise. Eight of them. People have long admired my hand buttonhole stitch method of applique. And I'm proud of my work in that regard. I tried regular applique once, about 30 years ago. I still have the unfinished project. It is a cat. So, knowing that Merricks would be bringing me a fair amount of applique in the monthly installments, and noticing that my LQS was offering a one-and-done class on applique, I signed up. I spent a rainy Saturday afternoon in their classroom where I was introduced to a couple of methods of applique and...
